Pompeius
Strabo, an able general, but an
intriguing politician, who hoped to raise himself under favour of the
disorder.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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And how can this be
beneficial
(to the
other)?
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Tao Te Ching |
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But Heaven to its
protection
will receive
Such goodness; let it then thy queen forgive!
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Thomas Otway |
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What
results did they
achieve?
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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That is the
manufacturing
spot,
And will at home and well.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Ilfll) wap' 1';va ail-1151' 213;
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:11 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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But he, with a
composed
counte-
nance and mild address, bade them sit down again, and
not by standing in the way, and making such a dis-
orderly noise, prevent other citizens who were at the
door from entering.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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Quite the queen of the
evening!
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Austen - Emma |
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Private needs and polis acceptance:
Purification
at Selinous.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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The progress philosophy has been hindered
most seriously
hitherto
through the influence moral arrie`res-pense?
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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It must be
remembered
that
in the second half of the fourth century the Greek attitude, broadened and
fully conscious of itself, set itself more and more against Latinism, above
all, politically.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Her bosom was uncovered, and between her
breasts she had a
beautiful
bouquet of tulips, roses, anemones,
ranunculus, hyacinths, and auriculas.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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D'autres fois Albertine se trouvait dans mon rêve, et voulait de
nouveau me quitter, sans que sa résolution
parvînt
à m'émouvoir.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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Then the higher line fellows began to come down along the matting in
the middle of the refectory, Paddy Rath and Jimmy Magee and the
Spaniard who was allowed to smoke cigars and the little
Portuguese
who
wore the woolly cap.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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He
subsequently
served as ambassador to Prussia and the United Kingdom, and was Minister of Foreign affairs from 1822 to 1824.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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" The Lion
went away and the Fox waited; but finding that his master did not
return,
ventured
to take out the brains of the Ass and ate them
up.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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" We confidently answer, first,
from the "melting melody" of his verse; in which, taking into
account the quantity he has left, he easily
surpasses
all others who
have used that harmonious speech.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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It appears he gave intelligence of Admiral Holbourne's
destination
to America, a few days after the admiral's instructions were signed ; and was particularly minute with respect to the number of ships and troops on-board, with the
george ii.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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if thou art a goddess, and hast heard
A Goddess' voice, rehearse to me the lot
Of that unhappy one, if yet he live 1010
Spectator
of the cheerful beams of day,
Or if, already dead, he dwell below.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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With his breath, Com- gall again kindled some dry wood, before their eyes, whereby the
darkness
around them was dispelled, and they became warmed.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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Jasper
Sapphire
Chalcedony
Emerald Sardonyx Sardius
Chrysolite Beryl Topaz
Chrysophrasus Jacinth Amethyst
t See Appendix.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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Such slavishness, even to such greatness, is a
poor and unpromising thing, compared with an
altogether
unprejudiced
and forward-looking self-reliance.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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In the nineteenth century, higher education was only for the
children
of the bourgeoisie, or that fiinge of the petite-bourgeoisie which the higher eche- lon needed for its industry, its scientific development, its tech- nical skills, etc.
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Foucault-Live |
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At the Restora tion he was
proscribed
and his works were ordered burnt by the hangman ; but after a time he was left unmolested and spent the last years of his life in quiet literary labors.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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The social and personal anarchy
seemed to be a _reductio ad absurdum_ of the
philosophy
of nature; if
ever the philosophy of nature was to be recovered it must be through a
revision of the theory of morals.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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But when like the flower I faded, — as the love-
liest flower must fade, — they seized me and hurled me
down among those who rot in the
sepulchre
where there
is weeping and gnashing of teeth !
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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Base kings and
ministers
of state,
Eternal objects of her hate.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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For this presenta-
tion, be sure that group members present both the
favorable
and
unfavorable aspects of the program.
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| Question: |
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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This person he represents, as having been driven by the restlessness of
fervid feelings, and from a craving
intellect
to an itinerant life; and
as having in consequence passed the larger portion of his time, from
earliest manhood, in villages and hamlets from door to door,
"A vagrant Merchant bent beneath his load.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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Maharajasa
tradarasa
Apuludatasa
Tripod.
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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Roderick, son of Edmond Maguire, was treach
erously killed by Cuchonacht, the son of Redmond ERALD, the son of Riavach, son of Don, son of
Cuchonacht
Maguire.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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XXXV
Flordelice marked the maid, that, in her sight,
Appeared
a warrior fitted for her needs;
And of the bridge and river 'gan recite,
Where Argier's mighty king the road impedes;
And how he had gone nigh to slay her knight;
Not that more doughty were the monarch's deeds;
But that the wily paynim vantage-ground
In that streight bridge and foaming river found.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Adjustment of the blocking software in late February and early March 2018 has
resulted
in some "false positives" -- that is, blocks that should not have occurred.
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| Question: |
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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{59a} Cicero is said to be the only wit that the
people of Rome had
equalled
to their empire.
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But only loose
thinking
can identify their cause with the C.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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os, de voces, de bay-
lcs y de instrumentos , Marandra , que en aquella
tierra era tenida en veneracion de Sibyla y Pro-
phetisa,
desviandolos
a todos, los ojos en la Vir-
gen y en el nin?
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| Question: |
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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9 fie was father to the
celebrated
Rollo,
these to the pirates
in which ,0 See Dr.
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| Question: |
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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He obtained the passage of an Act of
Parliament
which made it
necessary to obtain a license for plays.
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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This is the mouth through which commandment came
Of massacre and damnation to the Jews;
Here was the mind the gods that hate our God
Used to empower the agonies they devised
Against us; here your dangers were all made,
Your horrible starvation; and the thirst
Those wicked gods supposed would murder you,
Here a creature became, a
ravenous
creature;
Yea, here those mighty vigours lived which took,
Like ocean water taking frost, the hate
Those gods have for Jehovah, shaping it
Atrociously into the war that clencht
Their fury about you, frozen into iron.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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When he rose, Vasudeva had
prepared
rice for him.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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Thou bearest to the youngster's arms that flower-like damsel, taken from
her mother's bosom, O Hymenaeus Hymen, O Hymen
Hymenaeus!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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S*A fine
sandstone
shaft of an ancient cross long remained covered with earth, until recently, when the Rev.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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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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| Question: |
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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Their eloquence may be said to have built up their
fortunes; and, indeed, such is the power, I might say the inspiration,
of eloquence, that in every age we have examples of men, who by their
talents raised
themselves
to the summit of their ambition.
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| Question: |
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Tacitus |
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Bứng, đi,
dừíi£
iV xco xiên,
Nồm, ngồi, cùm* pkíU bẳo khuyên chinh tề.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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That which is, has already existed; that which is to
be, has already been; that which has passed away, God seeks in
order to give it
existence
again.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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In this lecture he just cites child psychologists in support of this claim; in Phenomenology of
Perception
he had invoked Husserl's thesis that 'transcendental subjectivity is intersubjectivity' and argued in detail that there is no coherent conception of self- consciousness which is not regulated by the consciousness that others have of us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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A YOUTHFUL EXPERIMENT IN ENGLISH HEXAMETERS
IMPRESSIONS OF HOMER
Sometimes come pauses of calm, when the rapt bard, holding his heart back,
Over his deep mind muses, as when o'er awe-stricken ocean
Poises a heapt cloud luridly,
ripening
the gale and the thunder;
Slow rolls onward the verse with a long swell heaving and swinging,
Seeming to wait till, gradually wid'ning from far-off horizons,
Piling the deeps up, heaping the glad-hearted surges before it,
Gathers the thought as a strong wind darkening and cresting the tumult.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Keep my riband, take and keep it,
(I have loosed it from my hair)[1]
Feeling, while you
overweep
it,
Not alone in your despair,
Since with saintly
Watch unfaintly
Out of heaven shall o'er you lean
"Sweetest eyes were ever seen.
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| Question: |
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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was the great-grandfather of Wu Wang, the king who,
continuing
the rebellion of his father, Wen Wang, defeated the tyrant emperor Chou Hsin [last of the Shang dynasty] and in 1122 B.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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With it goes that
humanity
which has its basic nature not in self-reflection but in its dif- ference from a suppressed animality.
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| Source: |
Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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Among the first to
realise the gravity of the
situation
was Queen Victoria.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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They write and write (quite
maddening
me)
Their "sapient" twaddle airy,
As if 'twere primum scribere,
Deinde philosophari.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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THE WHITE DOE
In a small town of Aragon, about the end of the thirteenth century or a
little later, there lived retired in his seigniorial castle a renowned
knight named Don Dionis, who, having served his king in the war against
the infidels, was then taking his ease, giving himself up to the merry
exercise of hunting, after the wearisome
hardships
of war.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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Nor is it rendered less impossible from the Instrument with which those who did it would
persuade
the World 'twas per formed by himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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Fitti nel limo dicon: "Tristi fummo
ne l'aere dolce che dal sol s'allegra,
portando dentro
accidioso
fummo:
or ci attristiam ne la belletta negra".
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Goodman's "Anti-Train" saw her through
creating
her book on witnessing.
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| Source: |
The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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It is natural that unjust judges should be held
in
peculiar
horror and contempt by the "People
of the Book," and Asaph's words bring the feeling
vividly before us.
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| Source: |
Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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The
singularity
of Britten's mode of life, and the contrast between his station and his connections, caused a variety of opinions to prevail concerning him and his meetings.
| Guess: |
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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True, he gained many scars and open wounds:
and a cast of mind that may seem
somewhat
too
bitter and pugnacious.
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| Answer: |
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest, (Tor Brutus is an
honorable
man ;
So are they all, all honorable men ;)
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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Finally, Hegel's philosophical mythology of the spirit alienating itself into matter in order to return to itself from an angle that would allow for reflexivity, can be celebrated as the most beautiful attempt at reuniting both
Christian
conceptions of incarnation into a more complex synthesis.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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) that he
would soon be distinguished for his abi-
lities, and become an ornament to any
circle in which he was
destined
to move.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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I, personally, the most essential opponent
of Christianity, am far from holding the individ-
ual responsible for what is the
fatality
of long
ages.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Their gaze draws me into
infinite
space.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Symonds, the whole of which I should have
quoted here, had it not been
unfortunately
mislaid.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Now, this conceptual redisposition makes it
necessary
to state
more clearly what it means to conceive of the future as a temporal horizon of the present.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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In
most of the editions of Horace, the line is arranged thus : --
Regis opus, sterilisque diu palus, aptaque remis : --
making the final
syllable
of palus short, contrary to Exception 2nd.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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The
situation
was
quite out of their control.
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| Source: |
Orwell - Animal Farm |
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The next two present a siting of
departure
from that force field.
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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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Then, manifest
attachment
to this life decreases, the power of the defilements (desire, aver- sion, etc.
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| Source: |
Kalu Rinpoche |
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"
"Why,"
responded
Fix, a little embarrassed, "I don't know; perhaps--"
"Ah, if you would only go on with us!
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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What little was written in Polish during this time
was to satisfy the just demands of the ladies, weary of
homilies and liturgies, and inexpert in Latin ; they
were accordingly supplied with translations of edifying
tales and fables, the most
talented
purveyor of which
was a doctor and citizen of Lublin, by name Biernat,
?
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| Source: |
Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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o dulce
libertad
!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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Famine had spared the palace of the king:-- _4000
He rioted in
festival
the while,
He and his guards and priests; but Plague did fling
One shadow upon all.
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| Source: |
Shelley copy |
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The kindled bushes with the young leaves thin
Let curious eyes to search a long way in,
Until
impatience
cannot see or hear
The hidden music; gets but little way
Upon the path--when up the songs begin,
Full loud a moment and then low again.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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At last, however, he began to
snore, and as for me, I gave myself up to
thoughts
which did not allow
me to close my eyes for a moment all night.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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10271 (#91) ###########################################
10271
THOMAS MOORE
(1779-1852)
BY THOMAS WALSH
LTHOUGH of late years, through the gradual change of taste,
the importance of Thomas Moore to the critical reader has
grown to be more that of a
personality
than that of a poet,
yet, in large and steady demand at the libraries, his works outrank
those of Byron, Scott, and all other popular poets.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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And I bade my company cast lots among them, which of them should risk the
adventure
with me, and lift the bar and turn it about in his eye, when sweet sleep came upon him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v02 |
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—Why is the fact of
our making others happy more gratifying to us
than all other
pleasures?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
|
After the battle of Dyrrha-
subjects were mostly taken from the life of the cium, Afranius
recommended
an immediate return
lower classes.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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But would the Reichswehr approve the dispatch of an
expeditionary
force to support Italy in an attack on Tunis or Nice?
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In Seelied the old man sitting on the
sea shore
describes
his waiting all day for the child with golden
hair, whose coming is the only joy left him.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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Young's model, which broke the eyes down into nothing but discrete rods and cones for primary colors, was thus
transferred
to a picture or medium that could simulate human eyes and show them how to perform.
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TO MY MOTHER
Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,
The angels,
whispering
to one another,
Can find, among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of "Mother,"
Therefore by that dear name I long have called you--
You who are more than mother unto me,
And fill my heart of hearts, where Death installed you
In setting my Virginia's spirit free.
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Poe - 5 |
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Yet not even these would
confound
the part, as a part, with the
whole, as the whole.
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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of
isof is of
is
of
of
fit
This book should be
returned
to the Library on or before the last date stamped below.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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This
testifies
to its
caution.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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I was the
happiest
of a' the Clan,
Sair, sair, may I repine;
For Donald was the brawest man,
And Donald he was mine.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Schools vie with each other in nationally
compiled
tables of A-level performance, and ambitious schools have been known to discourage less able pupils from even trying, for fear of damaging the school's rank in the league table.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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1916
The Jig of Forslin The Four Seas Company 1916
Nocturne of Remembered Spring The Four Seas Company 1917
The Charnel Rose The Four Seas Company 1918
The House of Dust The Four Seas Company 1920
Punch: the
Immortal
Liar Alfred A.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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It all hit the fan in 1998 when Judith Rich Harris, an unaffiliated scholar (whom the press quickly dubbed "a
grandmother
from New Jersey"), published The Nurture Assumption.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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Borkenau's am bition as a macro-historian was to use his
doctrine
of the opposing yet interconnected attitudes of cul tures towards death to disprove the historico philosophical doctrine of Oswald Spengler, who argued that every culture arises like a windowless monad from its own unmistakable 'primal experi ence' - today we would call it a primary irritation - flourishing and declining in an exclusively en dogenously determined life cycle , without any real communication between cultures.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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Her
eyebrows
are like the plumage of the kingfisher, her flesh
is like snow.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Then the rushing of fire around me and under,
And the howling of beasts and a sound as of thunder -
Beasts burning and blind and forced onward and over,
As the passionate flame reached around them, and wove her
Red hands in their hair, and kissed hot till they died -
Till they died with a wild and a
desolate
moan,
As a sea heart-broken on the hard brown stone;
And into the Brazos I rode all alone
All alone, save only a horse long-limbed,
And blinded and bare and burnt to the skin.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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"
In Italy, many of her scholars, and they are not few, assured the
writer, "that none but the most profoundly ignorant hold any opinion
but that of
admiration
for the works of Fra Paolo Sarpi, and for his efforts
to reform the Romish Church.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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And I flowed in upon thee, beat them off ; 1 have been
intimate
with thee, known
thy ways.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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The
air of strong
conviction
with which they wrote, when scarcely anyone
else seemed to have an equally strong faith in as definite a creed; the
boldness with which they tilted against the very front of both the
existing political parties; their uncompromising profession of
opposition to many of the generally received opinions, and the suspicion
they lay under of holding others still more heterodox than they
professed; the talent and verve of at least my father's articles, and
the appearance of a corps behind him sufficient to carry on a Review;
and finally, the fact that the _Review_ was bought and read, made the
so-called Bentham school in philosophy and politics fill a greater place
in the public mind than it had held before, or has ever again held since
other equally earnest schools of thought have arisen in England.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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