Mine arms enfold
That, which unswayed by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so
infinitely
far.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And it is
time to know them well and
describe
them well,
for the pious ones of the old belief die out also;
let us save their likeness and type, at least for the
sake of knowledge.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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Daphnis too played on
Philetas’
pipe a love-song
and danced with Chloe the story of the origin of the pipe, Pan’s wooing
of the maid Syrinx.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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Am I false,
Or
infamous?
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Dryden - Complete |
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Answer: A sluggard; how
very pleasant it would have been to hear that of
oneself!
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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[p21] Cronus ordered him to bury the beginnings, the middles and the ends of all
writings
in Heliopolis, the city of the Sippareni; to build a boat and embark on it with his close friends; to load the boat with food and drink, and to put on board every kind of bird and four-footed creature; and then, when all the preparations were complete, to sail away.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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I
resolved
that I would be free if running away
could make me so.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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Prince Henry, as another King of Prussia
might very well be imagined writing to another
brother Henry, "that it is only our
interest
which
makes it our duty to act at this moment, but we
must be very careful not to say so.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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spide, puede
sentirse
seguro.
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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Felim, son Hugh
O’Tuathail
(or O'Toole), lord Hy Murray (in Wicklow), died.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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The inversion of the
relation
between life and learning is in the air: the end of the belief in education, the end of European Scholasticism.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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His poems form the
synthesis
of
Donne and Butler.
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Marvell - Poems |
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is
it, ;
6o flfliegtern S^actproloijp,
to answer 'em ; yet this one Thing would be sufficient, That in this Sessions, they Kad
Reversed
the Judgment againt this Ver- tuous, Pious, and Honourable Lord.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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In which thing seeing, the
_greatest_
and _chief perfection_ of
_Man_ consists, _I_ repute my self to have gain’d much by this days
_Meditation_, for that therein _I_ have discover’d the _Cause_ of
_Error_, _and Falshood_; which certainly can be no other then what _I_
have now Declared; for whenever in Passing my Judgement, _I_ bridle
my _Will_ so that it extend it self _only_ to those things which I
_clearly_ and _distinctly_ perceive, it is impossible that I can _Err_.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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Maintain
attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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^'* Here she filled the vessel borne with water, and instantly
of Erin,' and the special Patroness of the sancta puella
fideliter
ministrabat.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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For that investigation one must await the advent of a new order of
philosophers, such as will have other tastes and inclinations, the
reverse of those
hitherto
prevalent--philosophers of the dangerous
"Perhaps" in every sense of the term.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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To employers it then became
desirable
to remove the formal prohibi- tions on employer associations.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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Within oral communication, they can serve a
controlling
func- tion--as threats or warnings--so long as communication is working well otherwise.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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Indeed, those beds and bowers
Be
overgrown
with bitter weeds and rue,
And wait thy weeding; yet here's eglantine,
Here's ivy!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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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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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the
original
volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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But be-
cause he had no mind to retain his own name, which
was no good one, his first warrant was to be created
Cheney, which was an ancient barony expired, and
to which family he had not the least
relation
: and
for some days upon the signing the warrant he was
called lord Cheney, until a gentleman of the best
1 he] who
EDWARD EARL OF CLARENDON.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Romanticism meant - according to the thesis of these lectures - transferring all of the optical real into the imaginary world of the readers' souls, where it
naturally
could not be stored.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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What was simple in the beginning acquires
monstrous
proportions in the end.
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Chuang Tzu |
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A man lowers himself
by
frequenting
the society of Germans: the German
places every one on an equal footing.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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He says
indifferently
and alike, "_How are you, friend_?
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Whitman |
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)
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Never eye that can behold it,
Though it worketh first by seeing;
Nor conceit that can unfold it,
Though in
thoughts
be all its being.
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William Browne |
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Plato, a full-blooded Athenian, was teaching in
the Academy the intellectual and moral
theories
of his master, while
Antisthenes, a half-breed (his mother being a Thracian), was inculcating
the lesson of his heroic life in Cynosarges.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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The decree was not confirmed by the Assembly, owing
to the opposition of Eschines, who gave notice that he would bring
suit against Ctesiphon for
proposing
an illegal measure.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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1,=;I=: ;z';:;: tL:f
E
: zi:i=;+;*;t-::rU::
=j=*i+=i
E !
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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Cut it into the shape of
ordinary
cutlets, and serve up in a clean
table-cloth or dinner-napkin.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Ancient cryptography,
developed
by Julius Caesar and adopted by Augustus, was a simplistic game with the Latin alphabet.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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With many, the regular
payment of interest, by
occasional
grants, would suffice;
but with many more it would not.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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All these together, with what is yet to follow, amount to as strong Arguments and pregnant Circumstances as the
Nature of the Thing will bear, and mark out the
Murtherers
as plainly and visibly, as if they had come out of his Chamber with white Sleeves, and a long Knife in their Hands, bloody all over.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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Individualism, then, is to be understood not as an accidental or
avoidable
current in the history of mentalities, but rather as an anthropo logical break which first made possible the emer gence of a type of human being surrounded by enough media and means ofdischarge to be able to individualize counter to its "societal precondi tions.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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The
same affection towards men is possible no doubt, but cannot be
commanded, for it is not in the power of any man to love anyone at
command; therefore it is only
practical
love that is meant in that
pith of all laws.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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The
same affection towards men is possible no doubt, but cannot be
commanded, for it is not in the power of any man to love anyone at
command; therefore it is only
practical
love that is meant in that
pith of all laws.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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The
same affection towards men is possible no doubt, but cannot be
commanded, for it is not in the power of any man to love anyone at
command; therefore it is only
practical
love that is meant in that
pith of all laws.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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Yet if we look more closely, we shall find
Most have the seeds of
judgment
in their mind: 20
Nature affords at least a glimm'ring light;
The lines, tho' touch'd but faintly, are drawn right.
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Alexander Pope |
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Yet if we look more closely, we shall find
Most have the seeds of
judgment
in their mind: 20
Nature affords at least a glimm'ring light;
The lines, tho' touch'd but faintly, are drawn right.
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Alexander Pope |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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concitaverit: 266
Semicinctia: 166
Seque eo dictante statuisse quod scribunt: 60
Serio: 94
Sermocinandi: 153
Sesterties an densrios: 171
Si difficilis ad eum fuisset accessus: 261
Si ex illiberali quaestu in diem vivunt: 173
Si impetrasset: 283
Si non annunciaveris ut se convertat: 143
Si non pergant usque in illos esse injusti et crudeles: 98
Sibi praesse: 49
Sic Galli sacrifici magnae Cybeles
caelibatum
genuerunt: 13
Sic praefati: 175
Sicut magis idonei erant cognitores: 36
Silentio.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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concitaverit: 266
Semicinctia: 166
Seque eo dictante statuisse quod scribunt: 60
Serio: 94
Sermocinandi: 153
Sesterties an densrios: 171
Si difficilis ad eum fuisset accessus: 261
Si ex illiberali quaestu in diem vivunt: 173
Si impetrasset: 283
Si non annunciaveris ut se convertat: 143
Si non pergant usque in illos esse injusti et crudeles: 98
Sibi praesse: 49
Sic Galli sacrifici magnae Cybeles
caelibatum
genuerunt: 13
Sic praefati: 175
Sicut magis idonei erant cognitores: 36
Silentio.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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Flat, clear drops of sweat
gathered
on everyone’s face, and on the men’s bare forearms.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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Flat, clear drops of sweat
gathered
on everyone’s face, and on the men’s bare forearms.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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When he woke up in a sweat besidus it was to pardon him, goldylocks, me having an airth, but he
daydreamsed
we had a lovelyt face for a pulltomine.
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Finnegans |
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When he woke up in a sweat besidus it was to pardon him, goldylocks, me having an airth, but he
daydreamsed
we had a lovelyt face for a pulltomine.
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Finnegans |
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Use well the
precious
time, it flips away so,
Yet method gains you time, if I may say so.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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’
‘You take my word, Miss, and don’t you let Miss Mayfill hear nothing about
A Clergyman’s Daughter 27 s
it It’d scare the life out of her If she thought as that tower wasn’t safe, we’d
never get her inside that church again ’
‘Oh dear 1 1 suppose not ’
‘No, Miss We shan’t get nothing out of her, the old-’
A ghostly B floated once more across
Proggett’s
lips His mind a little more
at rest now that he had delivered his fortnightly report upon the bells, he
touched his cap and departed, while Dorothy rode on into the High Street,
with the twin problems of the shop-debts and the Church Expenses pursuing
one another through her mind like the twin refrains of a villanelle
The still watery sun, now playing hide-and-seek.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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If a breath of
air stirred, it made no sound here; for there was not a holly, not an
evergreen to rustle, and the
stripped
hawthorn and hazel bushes were as
still as the white, worn stones which causewayed the middle of the path.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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’
‘You take my word, Miss, and don’t you let Miss Mayfill hear nothing about
A Clergyman’s Daughter 27 s
it It’d scare the life out of her If she thought as that tower wasn’t safe, we’d
never get her inside that church again ’
‘Oh dear 1 1 suppose not ’
‘No, Miss We shan’t get nothing out of her, the old-’
A ghostly B floated once more across
Proggett’s
lips His mind a little more
at rest now that he had delivered his fortnightly report upon the bells, he
touched his cap and departed, while Dorothy rode on into the High Street,
with the twin problems of the shop-debts and the Church Expenses pursuing
one another through her mind like the twin refrains of a villanelle
The still watery sun, now playing hide-and-seek.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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The resounding colours
with which you
sprinkle
your dress,
inspire the spirits of poets
with thoughts of dancing flowers.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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The resounding colours
with which you
sprinkle
your dress,
inspire the spirits of poets
with thoughts of dancing flowers.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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When I consider
your characters, fellow-soldiers, and reflect on your past achieve-
ments, I have great hopes of victory: your spirit, your age, your
virtue encourage me; and our
necessity
too, which even inspires
cowards with bravery,- for the narrowness of our position will
prevent the enemy's numbers from surrounding us.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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Harpourt had been worried to the point of death
had never
pubhshed
an3^hing.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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Let me never be
believed
again, if
I do not gallantly prove it by several people who have seen the light of
the day.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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Page then
demanded
his sword.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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I dare say 'the horses' won't find it convenient to come
out to
Plumstead
very soon, and when that once is done the
matter may drop.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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I charged her to write to me very often, and to remember
that if she were in any
distress
we should be always her friends.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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XCII
But of
Marphisa
what will be your thought,
And Guido late so furious?
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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It alone is
sufficient
to mar a world of good effect in the
furniture subjected to its influence.
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Poe - 5 |
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At Landshut, as soon as the Swedish
army
appeared
under the walls, the garri-
?
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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When
Antonius
returned into Italy, every one thought that Atticus would be in great peril, on account of his close intercourse with Cicero and Brutus.
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Roman Translations |
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at the same time, however, Hegel altered the
internal
set of categori- cal principles significantly.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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The subject of allegory, it turns out, will be called a
depersonalized
grammar.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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O'er the roof of the helmet high, a ridge,
wound with wires, kept ward o'er the head,
lest the relict-of-files {15c} should fierce invade,
sharp in the strife, when that
shielded
hero
should go to grapple against his foes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Enfin, il a dit que le jour ou il mourrait il
arriverait
un
malheur a quelqu'un.
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Oscar Wilde |
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fourteeners,' rimed in couplets, was very
successful
;
p.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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In the second place we must
consider
its inclination to act; and in
this way it regards the powers of the soul.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Summa Theologica |
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To prevent which inconveniency he did tell her many tragical
stories of the total ruin of several
kingdoms
by adultery; did read unto
her the legend of chaste wives; then made some lectures to her in the
praise of the choice virtue of pudicity, and did present her with a book in
commendation of conjugal fidelity; wherein the wickedness of all licentious
women was odiously detested; and withal he gave her a chain enriched with
pure oriental sapphires.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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The World without
Consciousness
of Sin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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"With unlucky omen art thou
conveying home her, whom Greece with a numerous army shall demand back
again, having entered into a
confederacy
to dissolve your nuptials, and
the ancient kingdom of Priam.
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| Source: |
Horace - Works |
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"
XXXIX
The livid
lightnings
flashed in the clouds;
The leaden thunders crashed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
|
,
Professor of Literature,
COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY, New York City.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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Soon they are
designated
as Mr and Mrs Porter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
re-joyce-a-burgess |
|
'T is nowise peace: 't is treason, stiff with doom,--
'T is gagged despair and inarticulate wrong,--
Annihilated
Poland, stifled Rome,
Dazed Naples, Hungary fainting 'neath the thong,
And Austria wearing a smooth olive-leaf
On her brute forehead, while her hoofs outpress
The life from these Italian souls, in brief.
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By these few and easy prescriptions (with the help of a good genius) 'tis possible you may in a short time arrive at the
accomplishments
of a poet, and shine in that character.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Canst thou expect, that should he even prove
Stronger
than ye, and bend the massy bow,
He will conduct me hence to his own home,
And make me his own bride?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Eliot, who worried that a system that sorts people by ability would disorganize civil society by breaking the bonds of class and
tradition
at both ends of the ladder.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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The
Viennese
loved it.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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It is
decisive
that the new "loose" chain begins with an uncon ditional gesture of expenditure, since the giver can only breach the circle of a savings-rationality through pure self-expenditure.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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However, what seriously concerned Tsong- khapa was the widespread misconceptions associated with Tantra which he believed to be
pervasive
at his time in Tibet.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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[91] This
characteristic
is so distinctive of the author that
it seems to differentiate him from other writers of romance by giving
his story the air of a popular tale.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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Hegel, Grundlinien der
Philosophie
des Rechts, § 189, Anexo.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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I know not why she should
choose to make herself and her family uneasy by
apprehending
an
event which no one but herself, I can affirm, would ever have thought
possible.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Would you rather be an
instance
of fallen greatness, or enjoy some
safe post in an obscure Italian town?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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In his time, two hundred million
allotments
of grain were imported annually from Egypt to the city.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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The body of this
singular
fish is broad and short, and
appears like the head of a huge fish separated from the body.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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Urban
recognised that he was again following in the footsteps of Gregory VII,
but his was the higher conception and his the
practical
ability that
realised the ideal.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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" The
doctrine
that Heaven sends calamity as a punishment for
man's sin is referred to again and again in the ancient "Book of
History" and "Book of Odes.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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I kept my head
low—useless
to ask questions; For why would I want to ask questions?
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Hanshan - 01 |
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Thus do
many
thinkers
bring themselves to views which are far from likely to
increase or improve their fame.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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She fears all things and she hopes for nothing: thus
anxious, as she is
returning
with food, is the bird, Who
has left her young in a lowly shrub, And thus, while absent
from them, is she apprehensive of many evils; She fears
lest the wind should have torn her nest from the tree,
Lest her young should be exposed as a plunder to man, or
a prey to serpents.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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My worthy friend here
volunteered
for the service; so we
made a race of it, and caught the runaway just as he got to Taenarum!
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Lucian |
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Christ
ascended
in order to send down love, v.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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Come, Bacchanalian, blessed power draw near, fanatic Pan, thy humble suppliant hear,
Propitious to these holy rites attend, and grant my life may meet a prosp'rous end;
Drive panic Fury too, wherever found, from human kind, to earth's
remotest
bound.
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Orphic Hymns |
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In 1691, when he was twenty-seven
years of age, he was clapt up in the Bastille as a suspected spy,
meditated a comedy within its comfortable walls, and, as Voltaire
owns with surprise, was never guilty of 'a single satirical stroke
against the country, in which he had been so
injuriously
treated.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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