For instance, the earliest historian of Italy Antiochus of Syracuse tells us that a man
named Sikelos came a
fugitive
from Rome to Morges king of Italia (tie.
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50_; takes
Missouri
from the Spaniards, _vi.
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Byron |
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However he was fated to die soon afterwards, after being defeated in a naval battle by Julius Caesar, who
intervened
on behalf of Cleopatra.
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-- However written,
the final syllable is preserved from elision by
the ccesura, and
continues
or is made long.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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Such
whispering
wak'd her, but with startl'd eye
On Adam, whom imbracing, thus she spake.
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Milton |
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Satisfaction
would beam in his face,
in his every gesture, in his every movement.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Thou drawest breath
Even now, long past thy
portioned
hour of death,
By murdering her .
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary
Woolnoth
kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The desolate,
deserted
trees,
The faded earth, the heavy sky,
The beauties she so truly sees,
She thinks I have no eye for these,
And vexes me for reason why.
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Robert Forst |
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Good valiant Franks, a
thousand
score I'll keep.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Lisardo, a
Salamanca
student, though a native of Cordova,
falls in love with Teodora, sister of a friend, Claudio.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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Shortly afterwards Teresa
deserted
her husband and an infant son and
eloped with Espronceda.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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, at least in part, a period of painful recognition of the
immensity
of the task that lay before him and the unlikelihood of his prospects for achieving those goals.
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Hegel_nodrm |
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Even as once she granted Orpheus his Eurydicè’s return because he harped so sweetly, so
likewise
she shall give my Bion back unto the hills; and had but this my pipe the power of that his harp, I had played for this in the house of Pluteus myself.
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Moschus |
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Later
appeared
the nine volumes on birds, in which
Buffon was aided by the Abbé Sexon.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Some of their finest scenes are
constructed
on this
ground.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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OF THE
FINISHED
SCHOLAR.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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Then he cried out :
In these churches, Tressan was accustomed to
Dearly beloved brethren, be ye
comforted
in the Lord, and.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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de Sancta Tri-
Antioch, by order, according to
Eusebius
and nitate, Athanas.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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The jabber in the woods had
passed off all at once with the dusk, the water deepening over
the bar, and the tide running slower, so that every one's con-
fused face turned
breathless
with delight and it grew stiller and
stiller.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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If this were the case then the purpose of painting as such would be to serve as a trompe l'oeil and its meaning would lie
entirely
beyond the canvas, in the objects it signifies: in its subject.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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^^ sand,
Have you
forgotten
the flowers of the land?
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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O wild and
whirling
words, that sweep in gloom
Down to dark waves of doom!
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Aeschylus |
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The tree, and on the same basis, the seed from which it
grew: this puzzling sequence seems to
demonstrate
that in both forms the
same spirit is embodied, now large, now small.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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But it seems to me that Plato gave this kind of writing the last polish, and that he has therefore, a just right to the first honour, not only as the improver, but also as
inventor
of that kind of writing.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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The largest of the three more important general groups, the General Confederation of Labor, was led, perhaps more clearly than any other continental trade-union group, by
politically
minded socialists of the more orthodox (not revisionist, as in Germany) school.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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and bestowed on him the manly gown,
intending
The leading feature in the character of M.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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Blandford
apologised
for having uninten-
tionally wounded her, and added --
"May I enquire, madam, what is the
design you have formed for the future;
for though a stranger, I feel for you the
interest of a friend.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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79 (#99) ##############################################
SKIRMISHES IN A WAR WITH THE AGE 79
agonal
gymnastics
and the conditions on which they
depend.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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Finally, we wish to exclude from the
machines
men born in the usual manner.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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This newfound awareness of the broad ritual implications of the ''Daoist body'' has special relevance for dealing with the apparently unbridgeable chasm between the mythic and ritual dimensions of Daoism, between the individual and communal aspects of the tradition, between the spirit and body, between the universal and regional, urban and rural geographic bodies, and between the early, apparently
individualistic
and mystical texts and the later, more mani- festly social and liturgical Daoist sectarian traditions.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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–Proceedings against Lady Jane Grey, [756
gotten to have and inherit the said Imperial and practise have the laws and conformities Crown and other of our said late fathers domi his their own native country countries
inions according and in such manner and form practised put
as in the said act made in the said 35th year is realin than the laws
statutes
and customs bere
long time used whereupon the title in heritance and singular our loving subjects
depend which would then tend the utter the logy \lary our solid late fathers daughter subversion of the commonwealth of this our
and the heirs the body the said lady realm which God defend upon which causes
Mary lawfully begotten with such conditions and matters and upon divers other considera
our said father should limited his let tions concerning the same we have oftentinues ters potent under his great seal his last as well since the time of our sickness as the
wili writing signed with his hand and for de time our health weighed and considered fault such issue the said imperial Crown and with ourself what ways and means were most other the premises should the lady Elizabeth convenient had for the staye our said
the name the lady Elizabeth our said late succession the said Imperial Crown fathers second daughter and the heirs the should please God call out this tran body the said lady Elizabeth lawfully begotten sitory life having issue our body lawfully with such conditions the said late father begotten and calling our remembrance that
the lady Jane the lady Catherine and the lady Mary daughters our entirely beloved'cousin
and large deth and may appear and the said lady for as much the said limitation of the
decla, coi, that then the said Imperial Crown and other the premises specified the said
act should the lady Mary the name
should limited great seal
with his hand as
his letters patent under his his last will writing signed the said act made the said
the lady Frances now wife our loving cousin 35th year our said late fathers reign and and faithful counsellor Henry duke Suffolk amongst the divers and sundry other things and the lady Margaret daughter our late and provisions therein contained more plainly cousins the lady Eleanora deceased sister to
Imperial Crown this Realm being limited authority parliament aforesaid
the said lady Mary and lady Elizabeth being illegitimate and not lawfully begotten, for
much the marriage had between our said late father and the lady Catherine mother
the said lady Mary was dearly and lawfully
undone and separation between them had
sentence divorce according the ecclesi
astical laws.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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_Cum tabulis animum censoris sumet honesti:_
_Audebit, quæcunque parum splendoris habebunt,_
_Et sine pondere erunt, et honore indigna ferentur,_
_Verba movere loco, quamvis invita recedant,_
_Et
versentur
adhuc intra penetralia Vestæ.
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Samuel Johnson |
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No doubt my pages nice advice supply;
Is't what I've
followed?
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La Fontaine |
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He was always young, always alert,
polished in manner, courageous with that sort of courage which does not
even recognize the presence of danger,
charming
in conversation, and
able to adapt it to men or women of any age whatever.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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They rejected the assurances offered them and fought desperately, and when they
captured
five Muslims threw them down from the top of the tower.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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" Sheltering himself with this phrase
he has allowed his former physical system a worthy
and extensive space in his great poem on Nature,
which really was to proclaim the new discernment as
the only
signpost
to truth.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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"
This may not seem a very serious matter, but it is serious in this respect, that people who have read only the traditional English version of the Letters must have formed a wholly different conception of the
character
of the lovers from theirs who have studied, however casually, the Latin text.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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I shall detain you now no longer in the
demonstration
of
what we should not doe, but straight conduct you to a hillside,
where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble
education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth,
so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on
every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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The prose invented by Cicero became
and still remains the common
language
of civilized mankind.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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What literature there was,
continued
on
the same lines ; the vogue of poetry increased when in
the rest of Europe its place was being taken by prose.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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igilii ii+Elsifi: EiiE
A giii:E
iEI iIiiE*EE;$
Ee-E'i'eEE
iEiiEiiilgI
isiei'i:?
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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Of feuds with the neighbouring Latin and Volscian communities the Roman annals of the regal period recount more than enough; but only a few detached notices, such as that perhaps of the capture of Suessa in the
Pomptine
plain, can be held to contain a nucleus of historical fact.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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For thirty years, he produced and
distributed
Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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Wherefore I bid thee pray, when in the open sea, that that constellation wrapt in clouds appear not amidst the others in the heavens, herself unclouded and resplendent above with
billowing
clouds, as often it is beset when the autumn wind drives them back.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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But
statements
and opinions themselves remain unaltered
in all respects: it is by the alteration in the facts of the case that
the contrary quality comes to be theirs.
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Aristotle |
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She was nor this nor that of those beings divine,
But each and the whole--an essence of all the Nine;
With
tentative
foot she neared to my halting-place,
A pensive smile on her sweet, small, marvellous face.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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She had quar-
reled once openly with a
chaplain
of her husband's, a clergyman
whom she herself had introduced to her husband, and who had
treated her very badly, but not so badly, not with such unscru-
pulous violence, as she was now encountering from this ill-
clothed beggarly man, this perpetual curate, with his dirty broken
boots, this already half-convicted thief!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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They
shall wear elegant and ornamented robes, carry a sharp sword at their
girdle, pamper themselves in eating and drinking, and have a
superabundance of
property
and wealth;--such (princes) may be called
robbers and boasters.
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Tao Te Ching |
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--People in the
restless
street,
Can it be, oh can it be
In the meeting of our eyes
That you know as much of me?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Comme le
voyageur
retrouve, presque semblables, les maisons
couvertes de terre, les terrasses que purent connaître Xénophon ou saint
Paul, de même dans les manières de M.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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Gawayne besought the Lord and
Mary to guide him to some
habitation
where he might hear mass (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The site relies on donated servers and bandwidth, so has automated mechanisms in place to detect when too many downloads are occurring from a single
location
(IP address).
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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This dual
relationship
gives bourgeois scholarship a certain degree of autonomy.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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, 59, "Sagæ
præcepta
rapacis desere.
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Satires |
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You have peremptory ordinances _against_ making roads, taxes
on the passage of common
vegetables
from one miserable village to another,
and so on.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Your
brunstane
devilship, I see,
Has got him there before ye;
But haud your nine-tail cat a wee,
Till ance you've heard my story.
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burns |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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Évidemment en ce moment celles que j'avais avec vous et que
votre départ a
troublées
sont encore les plus fortes.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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folks is tired o’ hearin' you a-squawkin';
Keep silence fur yo'
betters!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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By many, this
volume,
published
among his later works,
is counted as among the most important.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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Again, when the
traveller
visits the city of
Nephelococcygia, it is but to think upon the poet Aristophanes, "how
wise a man he was, and how true a reporter, and how little cause there
is to question his fidelity for what he hath written.
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Lucian - True History |
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For thirty years, he produced and
distributed
Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
A t dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing,
M ainly from pleasure, and from noble usage,
B
lackbirds
too shake theirs then as they sing,
R eceiving their mates, mingling their plumage,
O, as the desires it lights in me now rage,
I 'd offer you, joyously, what befits the lover.
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Villon |
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I saw the
fourfold
River flow,
And deep it was, with golden sand;
It flowed between a mossy land
With murmured music grave and low.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Browne |
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Now I say every being that cannot act except under the idea of freedom is just for that reason in a
practical
point of view really free, that is to say, all laws which are inseparably connected with freedom have the same force for him as if his will had been shown to be free in itself by a proof theoretically conclusive.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
|
Wood-pigeons cooed there, stock-doves nestled there;
My trees were full of songs and flowers and fruit,
Their
branches
spread a city to the air,
And mice lodged in their root.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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It is essential to be able to be in any situation with combined
mental
quiescence
and penetrative insight.
| Guess: |
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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Then man
acquires
the leisure in which to
develop himself into something new and more
lofty.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
|
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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3 Ptolemy, rejoiced at having
recovered
his brother's throne without a struggle (for which he knew that his brother's son was intended, both by his mother Cleopatra and the inclination of the nobles), but being incensed at all that had opposed his interests, ordered, as soon as he entered Alexandria, the partisans of the young prince to be put to death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium
and
discontinue
all use of and all access to other copies of
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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There's no hope so firm life will not belie it,
no
happiness
life will not wrest away.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
|
XLVIII
Fine woven purple linen
I bring thee from Phocaea,
That, beauty upon beauty,
A
precious
gift may cover
The lap where I have lain.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Though this same ]oseph could have become a respected shepherd at the fountains of Israel if his brothers had left him alone, or an olive farmer listening in pious serenity to the growing of the trees, there were other career options for him in Egypt - assuming the newcomer were able to turn his
involuntary
immigration to his advantage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
|
Someone said : What does the
sacrifice
mean?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
|
Concerning the political situation of his own days, Massinger
shared the
dissatisfaction
felt by many patriotic contemporaries.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The monarchical par-
ties on the other hand both by a feeling of loyalty
and the
prospect
of the approaching end were
compelled to preserve comparative silence.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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[Legamen ad paginam
Latinam]
31 1 Gordian reigned six years.
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Encylopedia
of Indian Philosophies: Indian Metaphysics and Epistemology, pp.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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And if I wished them to fare badly,
Then I could, may God
preserve
me,
Show pride and scorn towards them too;
It's not in my power so to do,
For at a smile and a glance,
I forget sorry circumstance.
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Troubador Verse |
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Encylopedia
of Indian Philosophies: Indian Metaphysics and Epistemology, pp.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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Meissner was also here; he caught me unawares,
Scribbling
to my old mother.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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No fair renown shall we win by thus
tarrying
so long with stranger women; nor will some god seize and give us at our prayer a fleece that moves of itself.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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His Essays and
Studies and Miscellanies bear the most striking
testimony
to his
comprehensive knowledge and love of poetry and to his scholarly
insight.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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'To render these details more easily comprehensible, I shall class the relationships in each table under their
appropriate
degrees of mourning, and leave the reader to examine the tables at his leisure.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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A salve so searching we may
scarcely
live,
A flame so fierce it seems that we must die,
An actual cautery thrust into the heart:
Nevertheless, men die not of such smart;
And shame gives back what nothing else can give,
Man to himself,--then sets him up on high.
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Christina Rossetti |
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It is obvious, of course, that in considering the history of its own society bourgeois historiography will not be
animated
by boundless indig- nation at social exploitation; and despite the recognition that some Marxist writers take of "progressive tendencies" in bourgeois society, this indignation remains the informing pathos of all Marxist historiography.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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9 Each
represented
to himself a siege, a famine, and an enemy overbearing and flushed with victory; 10 sometimes contemplating in imagination the desolation and burning of the city, and sometimes the captivity and wretched slavery of all its inhabitants; 11 and thinking the former destruction of Athens, which was attended only with the ruin of their houses, while their children and parents were safe, much less calamitous than what was now to befall them; 12 since there remained no fleet in which, as before, they might find a refuge, and no army by whose valour they might be saved to erect a finer city.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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The person or entity that provided you
with the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in
lieu of a refund.
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Tacitus |
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Further
reproduction
prohibited without permission.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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And when the welcome simmer shower
Has cheer'd ilk drooping little flower,
We'll to the
breathing
woodbine bower,
At sultry noon, my Dearie, O.
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burns |
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And an obelus marks the rejection of the
expression
or of the passage.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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But the pious shall be kept away from it - he who gives his
wealth in alms, and who gives no favor to any one for the sake
of reward, but only craving the face of his Lord the most High;
in the end he shall be well
pleased!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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Les nations dont la culture intellec-
tuelle est d'origine latine, sont plus
anciennement
civilise?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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Perhaps you may not find your account lucratively in
this business; but you are a patriot for the music of your country;
and I am certain posterity will look on
themselves
as highly indebted
to your public spirit.
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Robert Burns |
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The struggle against raw and savage natures must be a struggle with weapons which are able
to affect such natures: superstitions and such means are
therefore
indispensable and essential.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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