And quickly he laid on the ground his arrow-holding quiver
together
with his bow, and took off his lion's skin.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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)
Lo here a new weft of a
twittering
mother, a Dorian nightingale; receive it with a right good will, for pure was the mother whose shrilly throes did labour for it.
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Pattern Poems |
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That there is a
universal
e?
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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I should not be very much
surprised
if this were
he whose step I hear now upon the stair.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Routledge
& Sons Ltd.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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O shaken flowers, O
shimmering
trees,
O sunlit white and blue,
Wound me, that I, through endless sleep,
May bear the scar of you.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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"
With a violent effort he held up his head, mused for a
moment with a
formidably
sombre frown, and then giving me
his hand, I'll finish it,” he cried, in a month!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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Wells,
with an
introduction
by Prof.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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Sera makes which it would
be well if our social
conventionalists
would consider.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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The former begins from the place I occupy in the external world of sense, and enlarges my connection therein to an
unbounded
extent with worlds upon worlds and systems of sys- tems, and moreover into limitless times of their periodic motion, its beginning and continuance.
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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 |
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Ages are thy days,
Thou grand
affirmer
of the present tense,
And type of permanence!
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Emerson - Poems |
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They were intended for acting;
and, as acting plays, they have
abundantly
justified themselves.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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Cesar now
proclaimed
Cleopatra queen of Egypt; but
she was compelled to take her brother, the younger Ptol-
emy, who was only eleven years old, as her husband and
colleague on the throne.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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If he picked himself and said, "I am ready to die,"
if he gave his name and said, "My country, take me,"
then the baskets of roses to-day are for the Boy,
the flowers, the songs, the steamboat whistles,
the
proclamations
of the honorable orators,
they are all for the Boy--that's him.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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manager of the public revenue, and held his and some
fragments
of others, all the rest are lost,
office each time for five years, beginning with B.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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He won after
deliberately
falling behind 36 times.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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tenero
tractari
pectore nescit
publica maiestas.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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But Robert Elsmere) would never have achieved more
than a
critical
success if it had been nothing but an able polemic
against orthodox views.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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the air
Grew silent, and the horses ceased to neigh,
And off his brow he tossed the clustering hair,
And from his limbs he throw the cloak away;
For whom would not such love make
desperate?
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Wilde - Charmides |
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" And again, in his treatise concerning the End, he says- "You ought therefore to respect honour and the virtues, and all things of that sort, if they produce pleasure; but if they do not, then we may as well have nothing to do with them:"
evidently
in these words making virtue subordinate to pleasure, and performing as it were the part of a hand-maid to it.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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That is why we need an understanding of the central processes which typify this historical epoch on the one hand, and on the other hand we need a world outlook and an operational strategy in
accordance
with the new conditions.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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basic form, in its relation to what is culturally preformed and derived as though it were
something
in-itself.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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The conclusions which we have reached upon grounds of
language and metre are
supported
also by strong external
16 Op.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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ran the
few steps up to him, but when he had reached him and was about to take
hold of him and, if necessary,
throttle
him, the woman said, "It's no
good, it's the examining judge who's sent for me, I daren't go with you,
this little bastard.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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leaving the potential
aggressor
indi?
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Schwarz - Committments |
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Wast for such a name, O most
puissant
father-in-law and
son-in-law, that ye have spoiled the entire world.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I should never
deserve her confidence again, after forcing from her a confession of
what is meant at present to be
unacknowledged
to any one.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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Given
some formula which fits the facts hitherto--say the law of
gravitation--there will be an infinite number of other formulae, not
empirically
distinguishable
from it in the past, but diverging from it
more and more in the future.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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[149] "The same day were all the
fountains
of the great deep broken up,
and the windows of heaven were opened.
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Byron |
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Angelica
and Medoro
III.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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They had seen
nothing of Omaha; but
Passepartout
confessed to himself that this was
not to be regretted, as they were not travelling to see the sights.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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Ah, dearest, my pet, my own
darling!
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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DWELLINGS
OF THE PEOPLE.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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Mindowe
Then give the
gorgeous
gaw
To Lawski's widow-she who soon will be
My crownèd queen.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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The view inward is supposed to discover systems that compensate for the loss of earlier
synchronies
between human and nature.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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Theopompus
says that he was the first person who ever wrote among the Greeks on the subject of Natural Philosophy and the Gods.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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I—take good care not to
understand
it.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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The Preface, among the most characteristic of my father's writings, as
well as the richest in materials of thought, gives a picture which may
be entirely depended on, of the sentiments and
expectations
with which
he wrote the History.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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mer--a
lifelong
friend and prote?
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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Finally they
returned
to mKhar-chu.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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Or THE
INTEREST
OF BEA.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The hydra was
destroyed
by a burning (combusto) poison;
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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" -- was
vociferated
from every
part of the room, and three cheers were
given to the liberal-minded Superior as
he rose to quit it.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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Is it not
sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I
shall writhe in the
torments
of hell?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
|
Because the previous chapter was
concerned
only with systems of small and of still smaller numbers, we did not have to consider differences made by having two, three, four, or more principal parties in a system.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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, in 1172,
according
to
Lanigan.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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Tirrell was tried under
both
indictments
and was acquitted on both.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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--Je
regrette
cette rencontre, me dit M.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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Therefore
the Romans, who were exacting requisitions from the other cities, demanded contributions from Heracleia as well.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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In our days, people would be glad to have
done with moral nature, and would readily
pay its
reckoning
to hear no more of it.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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siecle, et cela en moins de dix an- nees; ce n'est pas si
decourageant
qu'on I'a cru.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Ha
supuesto
Andalucía
que era Vénus sevillana.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jose Zorrilla |
|
Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Then there she is in the piercing cold at dawn,
hoarfrost adrip from her
feathers
agleam with day.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
|
181
mi
THE DISPERSION OF RAGE IN THE ERA OF THE CENTER
Conservatives start with frustration, progressives end with frustration;
everybody
suffers from the age and can agree on that point.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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I said to my heart, my feeble heart;
Haven't we had enough of
sadness?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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It is only through the power of this asceticism that a society of knowers beyond the
humanistic
literary society could form.
| 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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Wee therefore desire and
instantly
pray you,
the
May.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
|
THE BOSS
Skilled to pull wires, he baffles Nature's hope,
Who sure
intended
him to stretch a rope.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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This may be said to be not in
accordance
with the Tao: and what is not
in accordance with it soon comes to an end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tao Te Ching |
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" 1
Two of the poems are interesting as
touching
upon Christianity (Carm.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
|
It is in this sense that one should conceive what is posited "in terms of presup- positions: for positing somehow always takes place 'in advance' of other kinds of
thinking
and other kinds of acts and events" (27) or,
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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though the modern orga- nization of knowledge tends to
reformulate
all problems of enlightenment into questions pertaining to the power to dispose of information.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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At a quarter-past eight, being able no longer to draw breath without the
most intolerable pain, I proceeded
forthwith
to adjust around the car
the apparatus belonging to the condenser.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
|
If the trade were purely a trade of barter, it
could only
continue
whilst England could make cloth so cheap as to
obtain a greater quantity of wine with a given quantity of labour, by
manufacturing cloth than by growing vines; and also whilst the industry
of Portugal were attended by the reverse effects.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
|
These are the first four
Dominant
Ayatanas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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Jean Justice and Amy Tatko then
meditate
on two places--Charlotte, North Carolina, and a high school class- room in Vermont.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
|
»
what
morality
can do!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
|
“Miss Baillie,”
wrote Jeffrey in his review, “cannot
possibly
write a tragedy, or an
act of a tragedy, without showing genius and exemplifying a more
dramatic conception and expression than any of her modern compet-
itors.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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What
confirmed
them in this opinion was,
iB2 MEMOIRS OF
[william hi.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
|
Mayne 237
less when
compared
with stronger dramatic work; but without the
two diseases of the time, the convention of coarseness, and the
convention of fantastic sentiment
Two writers who were among the sons' of Ben and of great
repute in their day need not detain us long.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
|
(At this point, the chin of the correspondent of a Hamburg daily newspaper drops to his chest with discouragement; for him, the morning is lost, for this is not the kind of
language
that keeps us going.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
|
” He also says
that the author has given (a poetical
vision of the sea, which is more like
an
apocalypse
than the vision of a
healthy mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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what avails it, that the face of day
Wears the bright verdure tif
returning
spring ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
|
oo dedes: 117
A son
conceyued
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
After the July Revolution of 1830, his refusal to swear the oath of allegiance to Louis-Philippe ended his
political
career.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
|
The
fragrant
gale, and the refreshing shade
Of my sweet laurel, and its verdant form,
That were my shelter in life's weary storm,
Have felt the power that makes all nature fade:
Now has my light been lost in gloomy shade,
E'en as the sun behind his sister's form:
I call for Death to free me from Death's storm,
But Love descends and brings me better aid!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Is the phalanstery to be
prohibited
from capitalizing and
lending at interest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
|
--Mi
castillo
esta lejos y estoy cansado, murmuro;
esperare el dia en un lugar cercano, y se dirigio al lugar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
|
If ideology is produced by the irresistible tropologi- cal
potential
of language, which carries or directs thought (porte la pense?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
|
Had I been in Lord Wicklow's
place, I should have been tempted to answer this question something in the
following way:--"Waiving the charge in an offensive sense of personal
consciousness against the noble earl, and all but one or two of his
colleagues, upon my honour, and in the presence of
Almighty
God, I answer,
Yes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Table Talk |
|
Hart
through the Project
Gutenberg
Association (the "Project").
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Representative Men |
|
\
Therefore
production does not occur
\ Simultaneously with the pot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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O Queens, in vain old Fate decreed
Your flower-like bodies to the tomb;
Death is in truth the vital seed
Of your imperishable bloom
Each new-born year the bulbuls sing
Their songs of your renascent loves;
Your beauty wakens with the spring
To kindle these
pomegranate
groves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
And so, in his heart, literary vanity
and ambition disputed the ever-lively
illusions
of love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
|
I just did not want to have
to repeat the same thing again and again, namely, that
machines
are taking over
(according to Turing'sprophecy of 1948) and how they are doing it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
|
Yet, perhaps, she was
sometimes
too severe, which is a safe and pardonable error.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
|
You've got to
multiply
that.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
|
Niam stood
With bowed head,
trembling
when the white blade shone,
But she whose hours of tenderness were gone
Had neither hope nor fear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats - Poems |
|
" At the same time in this process of decentralization — if I may use the term — the once purely celestial Varuna became relegated to a
position
among seven secondary deities of the heavenly sphere called Adityas (afterwards increased to twelve, and regarded as diversified forms of the sun in the several months of the year), and sub
196 VEDIC HYMNS.
| Guess: |
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At about
midnight, when wending our way through the silent
town, a policeman approached us,
intending
to warn
the loud, strange gentleman to moderate his voice.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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utet der Schritt
Des
Fremdlings
durch die silberne Nacht.
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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To swallow them why cleaves not earth
asunder?
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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The kettle sings, the
firelight
dances.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Let the
depraved
ghosts worry about transcendence and spin out their "relationship" with ?
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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# Accordingly Scipio, surnamed Africanus, being sent out by the Senate to arrange all the kingdoms of the world, in order that they might be put into the hands of those to whom they properly belonged, took with him only five slaves, as we are informed by
Polybius
and Poseidonius.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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wise
dispensac{i}ou{n}
of god spare?
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