And
therefore they begin theirs at that rate they can scarce hear themselves,
as if it were not matter whether anyone
understood
them.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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On the other hand, despite the unusual degree of continuity in the use of the temple at Ayia Irini, the cultic focus on the terracotta head shows that its
original
function was not well understood.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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Thus, in the sea engulphed, the
wretched
knight,
Repentant of his deed, was touched with fear;
And, matchless both for spirit and for hand,
Beat back the billows, and returned to land.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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All the children seemed clearly to remember the observer and reacted with strong feeling; all but one made 'a
desperate
attempt' to avoid the observer.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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the offspring of indeed a friend
Hath reach'd my house, of one who hath endured
Arduous conflicts num'rous for my sake; 210
And much I purpos'd, had Olympian Jove
Vouchsaf'd us prosp'rous passage o'er the Deep,
To have receiv'd him with such
friendship
here
As none beside.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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He's a Bohemian
fugitive
and rebel,
His neck is forfeit.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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how have I this cruelty
deserved?
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Dryden - Complete |
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This change of focus expressed the different
stages of the quick
development
through which Weininger
went.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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v),
referring
to the short expedition
mentioned in 4 ?
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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The hillside vines dear
memories
of Thee bring:
A bird at evening flying to its nest
Tells me of One who had no place of rest:
I think it is of Thee the sparrows sing.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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The thought hath
poisoned
all my years.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Moreover, this is the ordinary way of having an
argument
and talking about one.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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iriny One, the Son of the Waking One, which sets forth the intellectual development of a man upon a lonely island, excluded from all his torical and social relations, was
published
in a Latin translation by Pocock as
niti.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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Upon the gallows hung a wretch,
Too sullied for the hell
To which the law
entitled
him.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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A question of sudden rises and more time than
awfulness
is so easy and
shady.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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Quienes en tiempos
regulares serían saqueadores son pioneros en los vacíos históricos;
quienes en años retroprocesales o
poshistóricos
serían malhechores
son héroes en la turbulencia de la historia aconteciente.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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Crack-rope was common term
contempt
old plays.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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[598] The
ancients
believed that cress reduced the natural secretions.
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Aristophanes |
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And do you
remember
when I got caned for crying about Mr.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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Generated for
anonymous
on 2015-01-02 09:06 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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the need for greater sensitivity to
questions
of hermeneutics, pertains to the problems involved in reconstructing the thought of someone like Tsongkhapa.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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What are our woes and
sufferance?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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From now there shall be no fear left for me in this world, and
thou shalt be
victorious
in all my strife.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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They
succeeded
each other, some of them having only honorary rank.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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Probably only because particular speakers manage to evade the danger and temptation to present falsehoods, clinging instead to those aspects on the side of being that seem to be in a state of simple identity with themselves, as if there were no mistaken, deceitful or self-contradictory people – or, in the jargon of philosophers: as if the identical could be represented
undistorted in the non-identical, or as if being could be
transformed
into corresponding signs without any loss of substance.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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The principal thing we must attend to, in the
division
of the parts of science like this, that no conceptions must tnter which contain aught empirical other words, that
conceptions
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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"
That
doubtful
Old Man of th' Abruzzi.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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"
Do you think Horace would have let anyone forbid him the footstool and put a table in the poem
instead?
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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This and the
Hermannsschlacht' (Hermann's Battle) were not
published
until after
Kleist's death, and they are his greatest works.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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The idea naturally
suggested
itself that, along with the names of the magistrates, the most important events occur ring under their magistracy might be noted ; and from such notices appended to the catalogue of magistrates the Roman annals arose, just as the chronicles of the middle ages arose out of the memoranda marginally appended to the table of Easter.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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As one man, the village swept through the forest toward the rising
ground that was but a few
bowshots
away.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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How impatient, how anxious, how wild I have been on the subject,
I will not attempt to describe; how severely mortified, how cruelly
disappointed, in not having it
finished
while I was in London!
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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Harles edited one oration (the seventh undertaken: Pliny says only that it was during
in the present order), as a specimen and precursor the
flourishing
times of Carthage (Carthaginis
of all the others, with a commentary by G.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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This approach amounts to a desingularizing reading in which one
understands
justice as a feeling for con stellations.
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| Question: |
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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THE
SLEEPING
FLOWERS.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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É a fuga abstrata do tempo, não a fuga concreta do tempo que é meu, que me dói no cérebro físico pela
recorrência
repetida, involuntária, das escalas do piano lá de cima, terrivelmente anônimo e longínquo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
|
Thus, we do not
necessarily keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper
edition.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
40
aut fluvium per tecta vagum
summisque
minatum collibus ?
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| Question: |
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
|
For what reason
some have assigned special excellence to Reason and Sensuality,
and have, accordingly,
determined
that it must be the work of his
poetic prime, is not very easy to discover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
|
She reached a hand to Joel for support:
The smell of
scorching
woollen made her faint.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst - North of Boston |
|
Jacobi
36 Chapter One
similarly
criticized
Kant's doctrine of rational faith: not only is it hopelessly subjectivist (i.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hegel_nodrm |
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Straight
at my nod are worthless trinkets brought;
Round beads of crystal, as a bracelet wrought,
A cap of red, and, dangling on a string,
Some little bells of brass before him ring:
A wide-mouth'd laugh confess'd his barb'rous joy,
And, both his hands he raised to grasp the toy.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
|
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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"
CLIV
The dress is suited to the craft; the
craftsman
takes his name from
the craft, not from the dress.
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Epictetus |
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Historia Mundi, or Mercator's Atlas, containing his
Cosmographicall Description of the
Fabricke
and Figure of the World.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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Now, it appears that
a citizen could live just
decently
at Athens on some-
thing like seven or eight minas a-year, or about ?
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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We could
merly been the steward of Maxime's not find fault with their words then:
family, and had enriched himself from they cannot now repudiate their mean-
the estate during the
Revolutionary
ing.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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the blooming morn
Upon her wings
presents
the god unshorn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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When I had finished, he looked at me
directly
for the first time and asked a quick series of questions: How old was I?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
|
Two years were to
be
employed
in preparations, and, by a solemn engagement, the departure
was fixed for the third year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
|
Ghost House
I DWELL in a lonely house I know
That vanished many a summer ago,
And left no trace but the cellar walls,
And a cellar in which the
daylight
falls,
And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries grow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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What
multitudes
of unknown faces,
unknown to her and unknown to each other!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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And thus with hard straining, hee has wrested those places to the proofe
of a Purgatory; whereas it is manifest, that the ceremonies of Mourning,
and Fasting, when they are used for the death of men, whose life was
not profitable to the Mourners, they are used for honours sake to their
persons; and when tis done for the death of them by whose life the
Mourners had benefit, it proceeds from their
particular
dammage: And so
David honoured Saul, and Abner, with his Fasting; and in the death of
his owne child, recomforted himselfe, by receiving his ordinary food.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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On historical writ- ing, see Blandine Barret-Kriegel, Les
historiens
et la monarchie, 4 vols.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
|
’
‘That’s just hedonism,’ Dorothy objected
‘M^ dear child, can you show me a philosophy of life that isn’t
hedonism?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
|
de
Charlus avait voulu l'aborder, que, me rappelant que j'avais parlé de
mon camarade au baron, lequel m'avait justement, en revenant d'une
visite chez Mme de Villeparisis, posé sur lui diverses questions, je fis
la
supposition
que Bloch ne mentait pas, que M.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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In the first place, no one is in a position to do
this: it is quite
impossible
to judge, to measure,
or to compare, or even to deny the whole universe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
|
Over-seas if thou had'st died,
Heavily had stood thy tomb,
Heaped on high; but,
quenched
in pride,
Grief were light unto thy home.
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Aeschylus |
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A man-at-arms at the Yang gate (of the capital of Sung) having died, Dze-han, the
superintendent
of Works, went to (his house), and wailed for him bitterly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
|
`But Troilus, I pray thee tel me now, 330
If that thou trowe, er this, that any wight
Hath loved
paramours
as wel as thou?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Before that period, and even previous the Christian era, colonies frcm Ireland settled Albany, Scotland, and some the Firbolg tribes Connaught, called Attacots, who were expelled from Ireland the first and second century, set tled the western parts Scotland; various alliances and in
termarriages
between the Irish kings and the kings the Picts and Caledonians, are mentioned by the Irish historians before the Christian era.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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Castor, the commandant of the fortress Phanagoria (on the Asiatic coast opposite Kertch), first raised the standard of revolt; he proclaimed the free
dom of the town and delivered the sons of
Mithradates
that were in the fortress into the hands of the Romans.
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| Question: |
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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His opinion
of her, I am sure, was as low as of any woman in England; and when he
first came it was evident that he considered her as one entitled neither
to delicacy nor respect, and that he felt she would be delighted with
the attentions of any man
inclined
to flirt with her.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Lady Susan |
|
: i
To read mankind, their laws, and arts
Who by that search shall wiser grow,
When we
ourselves
can never know ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
|
Ignatius
Gallaher
we all know and his Chapelizod boss,
Harmsworth of the farthing press, and his American cousin of the Bowery
guttersheet not to mention _Paddy Kelly's Budget, Pue's Occurrences_
and our watchful friend _The Skibbereen Eagle_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Joyce - Ulysses |
|
They are those who, in the domain of political and everyday li -which is also the domain of indi erent things-do what needs to be done, even if they do not do it in a Stoic spirit (that is,
considering
that the only absolute value is the moral good).
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
|
This is the promise o f the
Romantic
fragment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
|
To hear in
imagination
the shrieks and groans and the blasphemous shouts against Christ OUf Lord and all the saints.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
|
Although
luminosity
or buddha-nature, which is the ba- sic nature of mind, is free from confusion, one does not recognize it and thus finds oneself in a state of confusion.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
|
)
But there comes Godunov
Bringing
reports to me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Only in recent
years is the series getting back into its old stride and looking
forward to complete its original scheme of a
Thousand
Volumes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
|
Central to this
training
process is the way it focuses attention on me (and you and everyone else) as an object of both control and knowledge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Key-Concepts |
|
The Commanding General of the SS, Himmler, in
November
of that year ordered the cessation of killings by poisonous gas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
|
In the first instance, indeed, this essentially geographical conception of Italy was not
altogether
coincident with the political con ception of the Italian confederacy ; it was partly wider, partly narrower.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
|
To them virtue is whatever makes modest and tame; this is how they made the wolf into the dog and mankind himself into mankind's
favorite
pet' '' (pages 133 ^ 135).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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mica
pregunta
de la mujer acerca de co?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
|
"
[11] L "No," said Atticus; "we are come with an
intention
that all matters of state should be dropped; and rather to hear something from you, than to say any thing which might serve to distress you.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Cicero - Brutus |
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Mine
innocence
and Saint George to thrive!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
I would like to place this schema at the start of my remarks on the work of Boris Groys, which conclude this series of contextualizations of the phenomenon of Derrida - in the firm belief that it is especially suited to
illuminating
the post-Der- ridean situation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
|
It is striking and, to some extent,
characteristic
of the age,
that, although the field of English romance was thus wide and
varied, the personality of scarcely a single toiler in that field
has come down to posterity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
|
now ready to
recognize
that there are in the world beings more real than man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Therefore, from that day onwards I began to torture
my
imagination
with devising a thousand schemes which should compel
Pokrovski to alter his opinion of me.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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He knows not yet, O God, that thou art also present
within himself; Thou whom he sees above him, whom
he
acknowledges
below him ; Thou who art everywhere !
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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When the Romans were in need of wives, Romulus ordered a proclamation to be made throughout the neighbouring cities, that he intended to make a sacrifice to Equestrian Neptune; on which
occasion
he meant to exhibit sports, and games, and athletic exercises, and to reward the victors with magnificent presents.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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III
The October night comes down; returning as before
Except for a slight
sensation
of being ill at ease
I mount the stairs and turn the handle of the door
And feel as if I had mounted on my hands and knees.
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T.S. Eliot |
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At first, he haply might have hid his woe;
Which Rumour now
throughout
the world will blow.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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n han dejado de estar en
sincroni?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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One Duke Univer- sity professor of English whom Carr quotes can't get her
literature
students to read "whole books anymore.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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Seizing in their bills the spawn of fishes they shall dwell in an island which bears their
leader’s
name, on a theatre-shaped rising ground, building in rows their close-set nests with firm bits of wood, after the manner of Zethus.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Fogg, as tranquil and phlegmatic as ever, said to
Aouda: "Is our marriage still
agreeable
to you?
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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WAR 47
of what instruments could the General make himself
understood
by the bashi-bazouks ?
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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Precipitate
This old roof from the shrine, and, insecure,
The nesting
swallows
fly off, mate from mate.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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Già
centomila
avean stimato un zero;
e in fuga or se ne van senza coraggio,
come conigli, o timidi colombi
a cui vicino alto rumor rimbombi.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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Imperial
Calicut shall feel the same,
And these proud state-rooms feed the funeral flame;
While many a league far round, their joyful eyes
Shall mark old ocean reddening to the skies.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Naked Burmans in
yard-wide hats of palm-leaf
ploughed
the paddy-fields, driving their buffaloes through
knee-deep water.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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