Send your
pitchers
afloat on the tide,
Gather the leaves ere the dawn be old,
Grind them in mortars of amber and gold,
The fresh green leaves of the henna-tree.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Gathering
flowers, they ridicule the passer-by.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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96 NOTES
parallelism between Wagnerian modernity and Dionysian antiquity: "For me, the phenomenon of Wagner viewed in the flesh initially negatively
illustrated
the fact that we have up to now not yet understood the Greek world and, vice versa, that it is therein that we will ?
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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"
It is often at a very early age that we find
the little people
tackling
the mysteries of
time and space, the enigmas of birth and
death, the marvels of heaven, and a crowd
of other questions to which we ourselves
shall find no answer on this side of the
grassy gate and the dusty way.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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Nothing but buffoonery from
beginning
to end.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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' At the age of four the child was told by a cousin of the age of
six that 'God had a book in which He wrote down
everything
we did wrong.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Plutarchi
Chaeronensis I de utilitate ex hostibus capienda.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Them, soon as she had train'd them to an age
Proportion'd to that charge, their mother sent
Into Thrinacia, there to dwell and keep
Inviolate
their father's flocks and herds.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Now, in order to obviate some censures, which may proceed either from
ignorance
or malice, we think it proper to inform the world, that we firmly believe the existence of Almighty God ; that this belief of ours is not an implicit faith, but deduced from the nature and reason of things ; we believe the existence of an Almighty Being, from the consideration of his wonderful works ; from a consi
deration of those Innumerable celestial and glorious bodies, and from their wonderful order and harmony.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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ricos con un
programa
que cuesta so?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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at,
And
hardeliche
a-doun stap,
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
Then came a little
pattering
of feet on the stairs.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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In the third, it may sometimes
* It is worthy of remark, however, that, when the initial trochee
divides a word, it is much less
pleasing
to the ear, than when the
foot and the word terminate together: e.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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O please let us come and build a nest
Of whatever
material
suits you best,
Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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In
Kamadhatu
and in the First Dhyana (viii.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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317
Each undw/ating vale rich
harvests
fill:
Fldw'rs deck the mead: trees crown the waving hill.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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For fame is
ultimately
but the
summary of all misunderstandings that crystallize about a new name.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
For nearly thirty years Ariosto changed and polished these lines,
so that the edition of 1532 is quite
different
from that of 1516.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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"
[18] "But I shall refuse to pay you," said I, "unless the
original
creditor takes no farther part in the suit.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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Third (and wherein he soars far above Daniel) the sinewy strength
and originality of single lines and paragraphs: the
frequent
curiosa
felicitas of his diction, of which I need not here give specimens,
having anticipated them in a preceding page.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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But the more energetically the essay suspends the concept of some first principle, the more it refuses to spin culture out of nature, the more fundamentally it
recognizes
the unremittingly natural essence of culture itself.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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Slowly, like
humidity
entering
the dying stem of a tree, filling it slowly and
making it rot, the world and sloth had entered Siddhartha's soul,
slowly it filled his soul, made it heavy, made it tired, put it to
sleep.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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All through this introduction I am giving the sort of French poem least likely to have been worn smooth for us; I mean the kind of poem least
represented
in Eng- lish.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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There are few
commodities
which are not more or less affected in their
price by the rise of raw produce, because some raw material from the
land enters into the composition of most commodities.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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Roper
became
restless
and dissatisfied, and with
much difficulty refrained from expres-
sing her disapprobation even before her
sister ; but this restraint was amply com-.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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43
Attic tragedy and dramatic dithyramb presents
itself to our view as the common goal of both
these impulses, whose mysterious union, after
many and long
precursory
struggles, found its
glorious consummation in such a child,—which is
at once Antigone and Cassandra.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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Such is the true meaning of
Machiavelli's maxim, that the end
justifies
the means.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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The si- multaneity of two events locally close is not verifiable because every verification processes
presupposes
it.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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Awake, resound thy latest lay,
Then sleep in silence
evermair!
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burns |
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All other adminis-
trators
communicated
with the emperor through one or other of four
great officers of state, the Praefecti Praetorio.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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But in addition to this, our
opinions
were far _more_ heretical
than mine had been in the days of my most extreme Benthamism.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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He is the supreme
master of irony and
troubled
voluptuousness.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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The universe is a gigantic crystal, all those atoms
and laminae lie in uninterrupted order, and with
unbroken
unity, but
cold and still.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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atqui si faceres satur, tacerem:
nunc ipsum id doleo, quod esurire 10
mellitus
puer et sitire discet.
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Latin - Catullus |
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AM'
biiuis to aviiirav rtixriiia rris a\ias tveXt-ire rwv t\aKia%iXitiiv SiaKoctots Kai
Ktvr^Kovra raXavrots; " What
historian
hath not informed us that the
Athenians, at the time when they engaged in war, on the part of Thebes
against the Lacedaemonians sent ten thousand men to the field, and
manned a hundred ships; that the Athenians, I say, in order to make a
just estimate of the subsidy they might properly grant for this war, then
proceeded to a general valuation of their lands, of ihe whole territory
of Attica, their houses, and all their effects?
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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This helps to keep the site as
available
as possible for visitors.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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Then
Harrison
as twenty-third.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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The Latin is not pronounced by us agreeably to the laws estab-
lished by the
ancients
for its pronunciation, but nearly as we
pronounce our own language; and we are consequently accus-
tomed to violate all the rules of quantity, and to confound it, in
innumerable instances, with accent.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Hampton,
obliterate
the known names of celebrities and half celebrities, and
the whole thing becomes a James novel, and, so far as it goes, a mate to the best of them.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Here the skin is your obsession with the boons or flash
experiences
and your grasping at their true existence.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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Thus psychoanalysis
substitutes
for the notion of bad faith, the idea of a lie without a liar; it allows me to under- stand how it is possible for me to be lied to without lying to myself since it places me in the same relation to myself that the Other is in respect to me; it replaces the duality of the deceiver and the deceived, the essential condi- tion of the lie, by that of?
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| Question: |
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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A year later, he began
borrowing
Chinese anthologies also from Angela Jung.
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| Question: |
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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_Redondillas_
(8-syllable verse); rime-scheme _abba_;
this arrangement of rimes is called _versos pareados en el centro_.
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| Source: |
Jose de Espronceda |
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You vapors, I think I have risen with you, moved away to distant
continents, and fallen down there, for reasons,
I think I have blown with you you winds;
You waters I have finger'd every shore with you,
I have run through what any river or strait of the globe has run through,
I have taken my stand on the bases of peninsulas and on the high
embedded
rocks, to cry thence:
What cities the light or warmth penetrates I penetrate those cities myself,
All islands to which birds wing their way I wing my way myself.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most
unpoetical
of all
creatures.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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We cannot delude
ourselves
about one thing: whenever Nietzsche referred in his later work to The Birth of Tragedy, as he did in the famous "Attempt at a Self-Criticism" and in the preface to Ecce Homo, he did so in spite of all his reservations about the "immature" features of his first book, and was consistently aware that this
of its new understanding of the ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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With this
utterance
of King Frederick has been
associated a biographical and critical study written
by the historian Treitschke, who made himself the
exponent of the HohenzoUern spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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One can say with confidence that we are not speaking of an individual unconscious, in the sense that psychoanalysis
generally
understands that notion.
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| Source: |
Foucault-Live |
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How many colors taken
On
Revolution
Day?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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" *
* Demodocus of Leros lived
previously
to Aristotle who mentions him.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Greek Anthology |
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Her death
was
terrible
to me; but I, once a lord of language, have no words in
which to express my anguish and my shame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - De Profundis |
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Modern Rome has nothing at all to shew which comes
anywhere
near it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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9 The guiltless are yet unburied; let the body of the
murderer
be dragged in the dust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Historia Augusta |
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The
circumference
of Cyprus is 3420 stadia, including the winding of
the bays.
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| Question: |
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Strabo |
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Collected from the
Conversation
of Mr Pope, and other Eminent
Persons of his time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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He
accordingly
exercises this power, and chooses a person called Jagher Deo Seo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edmund Burke |
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To conclude, Barnabas was sent to bring them farther forward in the
principles
of faith; to set things in some certain order; to give the building which was begun some form, that there might be a lawful state of the Church.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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In a niche
opposite the cabinet gleamed a complete suit of sixteenth-century
armor; and so dry was the atmosphere of the apartment that
scarce a spot of rust
appeared
upon the polished surface, which
however, like every other object in the room, was overlaid with
fine dust.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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According to the system outlined by Gam-po-pa in the "Jewel
Ornament
of Liberation", these stages can be divided into thirteen : the stages of wishing, fervent regard, the ten Bodhisattva ones and that of Buddhahood.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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Then some fling on the fire Latin
spoils stripped from the slain, helmets and shapely swords, bridles and
glowing chariot wheels; others
familiar
gifts, the very shields and
luckless weapons of the dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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2 In short, if all had been given the power of
expressing
their choice as to whom they desired as emperor, none other would have been chosen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Historia Augusta |
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But this criterion of the specific action confounded with the motive of the moral will, the desire for happiness made
the chief motive, and put in the place of the sense of duty, the actual facts of the true moral
consciousness
are rendered as inexplicable as theoretical knowledge when the associa tion of ideas, which only means of logical thought, put in its place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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The general commerce is almost exclusively in the hand of
Japanese
and Chinese.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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They offered the
mountain
and the lake as places ofpractice to Milarepa and all his pupils.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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He also set aside sites for madrasas for the various (other) communi- ties, to add to the
benefits
they had already received.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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C,OL) I)I-iUSION
over the planet, on all
continents
and islands, and at all times.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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Do you imagine that Alcestis would have died to save
Admetus, or Achilles to avenge Patroclus, or your own Codrus in order
to
preserve
the kingdom for his sons, if they had not imagined that the
memory of their virtues, which is still retained among us, would be
immortal?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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And after some time, being sent to Lacedaemon to conciliate a peace, he was again suspected of wrongdoing, and on that
suspicion
banished.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Roman Translations |
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The flesh surrendered, cancelled,
The
bodiless
begun;
Two worlds, like audiences, disperse
And leave the soul alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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prophetic
of my coming fate,
Pensive and gloomy while yet joy was lent,
On the loved lineaments still fix'd, intent
To seek dark bodings, ere thy sorrow's date!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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I have heard the
mermaids
singing, each to each.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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We care now to realize the thoughts of other
classes besides our own; so did they in Lucian's time; but it is
significant that Francklin in 1780,
refusing
to translate this series,
says: 'These dialogues exhibit to us only such kind of conversation as
we may hear in the purlieus of Covent Garden--lewd, dull, and
insipid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucian |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
|
Never was narrower
forecastle
seen
Nor so little room for the crew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Child Verse |
|
" 10 Then in the Progress in Practice he says:
"There is no virtuous practice to be had
anywhere
Which the Sons of the Victor do not observe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
|
Libo the tribune aroused the people against him, and
presented
a bill which was to operate against his conduct as a subsequent law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cicero - Brutus |
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22 We know, furthermore, from cultural comparison as well as from em- pirical investigations that in daily life we
experience
time as rather
discontinuous, that future is disconnected from the present and that only a few societies and in those societies only a fraction of their members feel obliged to gloss over these discontinuities and to level them out by a kind of mathematical calculation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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Only in the dance do I know how to speak the parable of the highest
things:--and now hath my grandest parable remained
unspoken
in my limbs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
|
The idea that the Roman state should coincide with the city of Rome had in deed in the course of time become more and more
unnatural
and preposterous ; but the maxim had been so intimately blended with the essence of the Roman republic, that it could not perish before the republic itself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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His action
and
teaching
gave force and direction, which Count Cavour
gratefully acknowledged, to the Kingdom of Italy in destroying
the Temporal Power of the Pope and establishing a free Church
in a free State.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
|
[712] As to his belt itself
disputed
might it be whether it rises as the Ram ceases to rise or at the rising of the Bull [Taurus], with whom he rises wholly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aratus - Phaenomena |
|
Genji murmured:--
"The 'red-tinged flower' is far from fair,
Nor do my eyes delight to see,
But yon red plum which
blossoms
there,
Is full of loveliness to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
|
Historia
Augusta, MA, III, 2.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Dickens himself, at the age of
ten, had worked in
Warren’s
blacking factory in the Strand, very much as he describes it
here.
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The
attitude
of the 'receiver' should beover-stepped.
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important
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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[472] A
dramatic
poet, who lived about the end of the sixth century B.
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Aristophanes |
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SERVE ONE MASTER ONLY 83
on the Exchange, because the city refused to
submit to an
exaction
of $55,800 by the Ameri-
can Company for engraving the bonds, when the
New York Bank Note Company would do the
work equally well for $44,500.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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It may be
supposed
the dullest of
them, poising his oar, thought of all that might happen, yet
could promise himself nothing: for victory would but rivet his
chains the firmer, while the chances of the ship were his; sink-
ing or on fire, he was doomed to her fate.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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Since the novel proposals put forward half a century ago, amongst
others by doctors Georget and Brierre de Boismont, a whole library
of volumes has been published in favour of
criminal
lunatic
asylums.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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[99]
In this world he found two originative
principles
{38} at work, one
pertaining to light and heat, the other to darkness and cold.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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But what kind of functional description, or
semantic
embodied series captures our functioning?
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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The thirst of glory cooled
immediately
in my heart, and all my passions were lost in this new one.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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He told me that he had made a large fortune in the island of
Santa Cruz, and was now
returning
to Denmark to enjoy it.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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Toxaris never returned
to Scythia, but died at Athens, where he
presently
came to be ranked
among the Heroes; and sacrifice is still paid to 'the Foreign Physician,'
as he was styled after his deification.
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Lucian |
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His uncle
Frederick
was chosen in his place but the real sovereign was Gustavus Vasa.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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Villon |
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It is
situated
at the western part of the island, but extends towards
the north, approaching very near Selinus in Cilicia Tracheia, for the
passage across is only 1000 stadia; to Side in Pamphylia the passage is
1600 stadia, and to the Chelidoniæ (islands) 1900 stadia.
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Strabo |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
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