True, it has been eagerly pointed out how much
the Greeks could find and learn abroad, in the Orient,
and how many
different
things they may easily have
brought from there.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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Promenading
round the garden, in
old days, with her doll, W.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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Promenading
round the garden, in
old days, with her doll, W.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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See the "Book of Obits, and Martyr- ology of the
Cathedral
Church of the Holy Trinity, commonly called Christ Church, Dublin," Introduction, p.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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At this instant
the body of
Charicles
was borne into the house, a wretched and
pitiable sight, for he was one mass of wounds,[55] so that none of
the bystanders could restrain their tears.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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In fact, there is much
similarity
between the methods of the Span-
ish and the English drama.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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36 A fragment of a curious and
nondescript
Round Tower37 stands about 16 feet in
There is an
height.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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You may boast of favours shown,
Where your service is applied:
But my
pleasures
are mine own,
And to no man's humour tied.
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William Browne |
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659 The
traditions
of these masters, and their positions in the lineage of
Pacification are detailed in Blue Annals, pp.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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, is a model of liveliness and ease combined with
fulness of matter,
scarcely
ever surpassed: and of this earlier style
there were many striking specimens in the manuscripts on Evidence, all
of which I endeavoured to preserve.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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It was the erection
and
institution
of an Order or Society, which we call Salomon's House;
the noblest foundation (as we think) that ever was upon the earth; and
the lanthorn of this kingdom.
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Bacon |
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--These, oh Govinda, are some of the
thoughts
which
have come into my mind.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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He
built the first birch canoe, and, with the help of Kwasind, cleared
the river of its sunken logs and sand-bars; and when he and his canoe
were swallowed by the monstrous sturgeon Mishe-Nahma, he killed it by
smiting
fiercely
on its heart.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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7 All things are murderous
When you come to your Time
8 Long did your every gain
Come at hardship's price
9 Disaster deafens you
To questions that I cry
10 I must steel myself for you
Will never again reply
11 Would that my heart could face
Your death for a moment's time
12 Would that the Fates had spared
Your life instead of mine
The original:
طافَ يَبغي نَجْوَةً مَن هَلَاكٍ فهَلَك
لَيتَ شِعْري ضَلَّةً أيّ شيءٍ قَتَلَك
أَمريضٌ لم تُعَدْ أَم عدوٌّ خَتَلَك
أم تَوَلّى بِكَ ما غالَ في الدهْرِ السُّلَك
والمنايا رَصَدٌ للفَتىً حيثُ سَلَك
طالَ ما قد نِلتَ في غَيرِ كَدٍّ أمَلَك
كلُّ شَيءٍ قاتلٌ حينَ تلقَى أجَلَك
أيّ شيء حَسَنٍ لفتىً لم يَكُ لَك
إِنَّ أمراً فادِحاً عَنْ جوابي شَغَلَك
سأُعَزِّي النفْسَ إذ لم تُجِبْ مَن سأَلَك
ليتَ قلبي
ساعةً
صَبْرَهُ عَنكَ مَلَك
ليتَ نَفْسي قُدِّمَت للمَنايا بَدَلَك
Romanization:
Ṭāfa yabɣī najwatan
min halākin fahalak
Layta šiˁrī ḍallatan
ayyu šay'in qatalak
Amarīḍun lam tuˁad
am ˁaduwwun xatalak
Am tawallâ bika mā
ɣāla fī al-dahri al-sulak
Wal-manāyā raṣadun
lil-fatâ ḥayθu salak
Ṭāla mā qad nilta fī
ɣayri kaddin amalak
Kullu šay'in qātilun
ħīna talqâ ajalak
Ayyu šay'in ħasanin
lifatân lam yaku lak
Inna amran fādiħan
ˁan jawābī šaɣalak
Sa'uˁazzī al-nafsa ið
lam tujib man sa'alak
Layta qalbī sāˁatan
ṣabrahū ˁanka malak
Layta nafsī quddimat
lil-manāyā badalak
Die Mutter des Ta'abbata Scharran
Rettung suchend schweift' er um
vor dem Tod, dem nichts entflieht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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XXXVIII
The winds out of the west land blow,
My friends have
breathed
them there;
Warm with the blood of lads I know
Comes east the sighing air.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Any kind of popularity it enjoys stems from
sentimental
misunderstandings – the most famous example is Chateaubriand's rousing promotion of the ‘genius of Christianity’.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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11, under the heading: 'Mixed results for sports advertising in the Olympic year: Sponsors remembered much more, but sports
sponsorship
criticized as well.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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XXXVIII
The winds out of the west land blow,
My friends have
breathed
them there;
Warm with the blood of lads I know
Comes east the sighing air.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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11, under the heading: 'Mixed results for sports advertising in the Olympic year: Sponsors remembered much more, but sports
sponsorship
criticized as well.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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25
Veronam veniat, Novi relinquens
Comi moenia, Lariumque litus:
Nam quasdam volo cogitationes 5
Amici
accipiat
sui, meique.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The truth is that joy in his own being, the
fulness of his own powers in connection with the
inevitable
decline of
his profound excitation with the lapse of time, bore off the palm of
victory.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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tf~I such IJ1lllter-s as lone-for
instance
the "".
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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tf~I such IJ1lllter-s as lone-for
instance
the "".
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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Naked above the waist,
He sat there creased and shining in the light,
Fumbling
the buttons in a well-starched shirt.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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tf~I such IJ1lllter-s as lone-for
instance
the "".
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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From a critical point onwards, the reversal of consciousness was even supposed to take place for free, simply by remembering one's natural goodness: Rousseau even managed to proclaim Adam the true human being and denounce all
attempts
by civilization to educate him, better him and make him strive upwards as aberrations.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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The young writer who wants to learn at college what an art-work is, what linguistic form, aesthetic quality, even aes- thetic technique are, will only
haphazardly
learn anything at all about the matter; at best he will pick up information ready culled from whatever modish philosophy and more or less arbitrarily slapped on to the content of works currently under discussion.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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)
Nevertheless, in what they yield these
examples
are not complete ei- ther.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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” So you wrote;
and what said Franck, that
recreant
angler?
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Though all in one
Condensed their
scattered
rays, they would not form a sun.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And if there dwell hard by
One skilled to read from bird-notes augury,
That man, when through his ears shall thrill our
tearful wail,
Shall deem he hears the voice, the plaintive tale
Of her, the piteous spouse of Tereus, lord of guile--
Whom the hawk harries yet, the
mourning
nightingale.
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Aeschylus |
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It has been celebrated as a democratic value but it is one of those democratic values that nietzsche would have
associated
with a situation of slavery.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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Thus, a radical
critique
of reason adapts itself to an object that has become uncanny.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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Trusted, but the game is hollow, Not one won piece soundly clinketh; All the
cardinals
that Rome hath.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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There
were in fact but two years between the
youngest
and Fanny.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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So, when you had risen
from all the
lethargy
of love and its heat,
you would have summoned me, me alone,
and found my hands,
beyond all the hands in the world,
cold, cold, cold,
intolerably cold and sweet.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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,
and extending over twenty-nine volumes (1813-28), includes, together with
political pamphlets of which a few are mentioned below, speeches, letters
and other appeals to public opinion, and possesses considerable value for the
historical study of the period,
unfortunately
very limited, which it covers.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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This bounded irrationality is
illustrated
by the thin line in Figure 10.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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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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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Six weeks our guardsman walked the yard,
In a suit of shabby grey:
His cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay,
But I never saw a man who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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There's no hope so firm life will not belie it,
no
happiness
life will not wrest away.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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But though the
individual
authors
of the Vedic Hymns, the earliest form of Indian literature, will never
be known, yet the date to which may be referred this first poetic
work of the Indo-Europeans can be established approximately, by
means of internal evidence, as from 1500 to 1000 B.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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After meeting with him, Lý Thái Tông was greatly pleased, bestowed on him the rank of Monk in Palace Service,528 and
appointed
him abbot of Van* Tue* Temple.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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This is another way in which we
habitually
inflate the impressiveness of coincidence in order to make a good story.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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But
Grillparzer
refused to allow this: he was satisfied to know that
Beethoven liked his poem and was willing to devote his genius to
giving it a musical setting.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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'You must
answer it; and that
violence
does not alarm me.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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There is no
prospect
of that, you can
tell them that quite openly.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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Jews, and the communities of Europe and Latin America will
continue
to exist in the present form in the
future.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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' I
hastened
to reply.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Đó là nhờ liệt thánh đã dày công hun đúc tác thành, nay đã đến ngày hái quả, trồng cây kỷ cây tử để lấy gỗ làm
rường
làm cột.
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stella-04 |
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Zachary replied to this letter, by giving
extraordinary
privileges to that establishment.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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t simplyrecognizesthattherevolutionarnyation- alistsofinterwarEuropehad certainthingsincommonthatsetthemoffrom otherpartiesor groups,eventhoughtheypossessedno absolutecommon
identityamongthemselveasnd
infactdisagreedprofoundlys,ometimesvio- lently,about major aspects of policyand doctrine.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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com
The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut that is funded by the
Ministry
of Foreign Affairs.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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11 In his later works, on the opposite pole, Crespo
observes
a more intellectual language based on "formas impersonales" (III).
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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His swelling heart denied the words their way:
But
speaking
tears the want of words supply,
And the full soul bursts copious from his eye.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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It is
more likely that his motives were mercenary, since both law
and custom still imposed some
restrictions
upon a senator's
participation in 'business'.
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Tacitus |
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] -
Heracleitus
of Samos, stadion race
144th [204 B.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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The view of mahamudra does not involve thinking that mahamudra or mind are one thing or another, nor does ma- hamudra meditation involve
analyzing
thoughts.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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The Governor was strong upon
The
Regulations
Act:
The Doctor said that Death was but
A scientific fact:
And twice a day the Chaplain called,
And left a little tract.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
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It happened that a
Man had often prayed to a wooden idol he had
received
from his
father, but his luck never seemed to change.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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What reason had the people for
thinking
that the great man had
come in the person of Mr.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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Pale as the silver cross of Savoy
When the hand that bears the flag is brave,
And not a breath is stirring, save
What is blown
Over the war-trump's lip of brass,
Ere
Garibaldi
forces the pass!
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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The difficulty lies not in carrying out the deed, but rather in
removing
its traces.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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» «Que voulez-vous que j'y fasse,
répondit
le duc.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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Soon should their hopes in humble dust be laid,
And long
oblivion
of the bridal bed.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Thus in the dreams of Little Hans, the horse comes to embody as unchallengeable a malefic power as the animals sacred to
primitive
peoples.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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‘the same
parliament
Statute and Commis 31.
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| Source: |
Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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tendu dans son sang, lui, le secret effroi des Ro-
<< mains, alors me^me qu'au milieu des danses guerrie`res et des
chants de triomphe, ils emmenaient sa Thusnelda captive:
>> non, ne
regardez
pas!
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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"
I could not live at home; and while I was considering to what I should
betake me, one of the girls, who had gone from our school to London,
came down in a silk gown, and told her
acquaintance
how well she lived,
what fine things she saw, and what great wages she received.
| Guess: |
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Samuel Johnson |
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THY soul
Grown
delicate
with satieties, Atthis.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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At last, the Angels prevailed, and
conducted
Brito's soul to the joys of paradise.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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(10) For
narrations
and relations of particular actions, there were also
to be wished a greater diligence therein; for there is no great action
but hath some good pen which attends it.
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| Source: |
Bacon |
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Now suppose England
to
discover
a process for making wine, so that it should become her
interest rather to grow it than import it: she would naturally divert a
portion of her capital from the foreign trade to the home trade; she
would cease to manufacture cloth for exportation, and would grow wine
for herself.
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| Source: |
Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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" Or who would endure a converse
or friendship with that old man who to so large an experience of things
had joined an equal strength of mind and
sharpness
of judgment?
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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He again
stressed
Germany's colonial claims.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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"
answered
the Queen hastily; "but
it is madness, and must not be repeated.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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"
answered
the Queen hastily; "but
it is madness, and must not be repeated.
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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I shall abide the first blow just as
I sit, and will stand him a stroke, stiff on this floor,
provided
that
I deal him another in return.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I shall abide the first blow just as
I sit, and will stand him a stroke, stiff on this floor,
provided
that
I deal him another in return.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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when the sleety showers her path assail, 270
And like a torrent roars the
headstrong
gale; [83]
No more her breath can thaw their fingers cold,
Their frozen arms her neck no more can fold;
[84] Weak roof a cowering form two babes to shield,
And faint the fire a dying heart can yield!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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A remonstrance with Alphenus, who had gained
and betrayed the confidence and
affection
of Catul-
lus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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A remonstrance with Alphenus, who had gained
and betrayed the confidence and
affection
of Catul-
lus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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Nothing in this license impairs or
restricts
the author's moral rights.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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A remonstrance with Alphenus, who had gained
and betrayed the confidence and
affection
of Catul-
lus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to
organize
the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to
organize
the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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Of the whole
universe
of touch, sound, sight
The genitive and ablative to boot:
The accusative of wrong, the nominative of right,
And in all cases the case absolute!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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Of the whole
universe
of touch, sound, sight
The genitive and ablative to boot:
The accusative of wrong, the nominative of right,
And in all cases the case absolute!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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Le douloureux mystère de
cette
impossibilité
de jamais lui faire savoir ce que j'avais appris et
d'établir nos rapports sur la vérité de ce que je venais seulement de
découvrir (et que je n'avais peut-être pu découvrir que parce qu'elle
était morte) substituait sa tristesse au mystère plus douloureux de sa
conduite.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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I alone am
faithful!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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It
certainly
knows how to be big, though it doesn't know how to catch rats.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chuang Tzu |
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Aussitôt il fit
un nouveau
mouvement
en arrière.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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It
certainly
knows how to be big, though it doesn't know how to catch rats.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chuang Tzu |
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Hence the gods are alternately, and as the subject
requires, venerable or contemptible; and this could not but happen
through the want of some
acknowledged
religious standard, to which all
might with confidence refer.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Satires |
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I
remember
how he
looked at me when I went in to him--do you remember?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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No, pasture molehills used to lie
And talk to me of sunny days,
And then the glad sheep resting bye
All still in
ruminating
praise
Of summer and the pleasant place
And every weed and blossom too
Was looking upward in my face
With friendship's welcome "how do ye do?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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