"Yes, I've been working at my trial for five years
now," said the
businessman
as his head sank, "that's no small
achievement.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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Otherwise, in a moment, if I were to come to
have war, it would be absolutely
impossible
for
me to guard them.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Elmire — But, mother-
Madame Pernelle - I should be sorry to vex you, my daugh-
ter, but your conduct is
altogether
unbecoming: you ought to set
them a good example, and their late mother did much better.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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With smale cost and without any payne, These pardons bring” them to heven playne,
Geve me but a peny or two pens,
And assone as the soule departeth hens,
In halfe an houre, or thre
quarters
at the moste, The soule is in heven ; with the holy ghost.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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' An almost female tenderness wells up now in the son whose father sought the
ultimate
lotus, dying by his own hand.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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This is the nature of the
Aufhebung
in Hegelian philosophical education.
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Education in Hegel |
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OF PANTOMIME
[Footnote: 'Pantomime' has been chosen as the most natural translation of
_orchaesis_, which in this dialogue has reference for the most part to the
ballet-dancer (_pantomimus_) of
imperial
times.
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Lucian |
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He loues vs not,
He wants the
naturall
touch.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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" [31]
"From that instant," said Dante, "the
serpents
and I were friends; for
one of them throttled him into silence, and another dashed his hands
into a knot behind his back.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Royalty
payments
should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, “Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Austen - Emma |
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He defeated them but was not strong enough to attempt
the siege of the fortress, and marched to Kuntit, on the Ganges, a
dependency of Phāphāmau, where Bhil, the raja of Phāphāmau,
made his obeisance, and was
confirmed
in the possession of Kuntit,
as a fief.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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Now
graceful
seated on her shining throne,
To Hermes thus the nymph divine begun:
"God of the golden wand!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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As is the case, when he prevents a fault being
corrected
by chastisement, that that, which is not suppressed in this life, may be stricken with the fire of hell.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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The literary value, if I am allowed to say so, of this print-less distance which mentally separates groups of words or words themselves, is to
periodically
accelerate or slow the movement, the scansion, the sequence even, given one's simultaneous sight of the page: the latter taken as unity, as elsewhere the Verse is or perfect line.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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a belief so
thoroughly
acquired by practice and so completely assimilated, that to disbelieve in it would mean the ruin of our kind.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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The dark night came, and then the lord of the castle,
having slain the fox, returns to his "dear home," where he finds a fire
brightly
turning and his guest amusing the ladies (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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He by
extortion
brings in three times more:
Say, who's the worst, th' exactor or the whore?
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Robert Herrick |
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If they themselves do not
understand
why they behave like this, then who knows where it will end?
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Chuang Tzu |
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Theological
Tests in the Scotch Universities.
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Macaulay |
|
If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the
copyright
holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: XIX
So often forging peace, so often fighting,
So often breaking up, and then re-forming,
So often blaming Love, so often praising,
So often searching out, so often fleeing,
So often hiding ourselves, so often revealing,
So often under the yoke, so often freeing,
Making our
promises
and then retracting,
Are signs that Love strikes at our very being.
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Ronsard |
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I
returned
to her apartment, extinguished my
candle, and seated myself in the window.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Then in her heart they grew
The snows of changeless winter
Stirred by the bitter winds of
unsatisfied
desire.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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, is
intimately
connected with
the testicles and the secretion of this fluid.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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These were the
territories
of the
two O'Ferralls, before the English had gained
power over them, and one of the English them
selves was in possession of O'Ferrall’s Port-Air O'Donnell, requesting him come his aid eachais (hereditary mansion), whose name was against the oppressors who had come his coun Christopher Brown.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For those three or four Days before their Deaths, when there was a general Report that no more should die ; he said, / don't know what God hath done beyond our
Expectations
; if he doth
am sure it is all his own, and by his Grace I will wholy devote it to him.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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And when her mother had those raging splitting headaches who was
it rubbed the menthol cone on her
forehead
but Gerty though she didn't
like her mother's taking pinches of snuff and that was the only single
thing they ever had words about, taking snuff.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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Item, After my lord what the matter meant, but
perceiving
his ma
duke and my lord Mar, and his majesty's ser jesty extream and great danger, ran with vants were the close, my lord Gowrie possible diligence thro' the streets, crying
came back again the hall, saying, The king was away that, thought, would have *ach man thinking so.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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But what is he
playing?
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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It is that strange medley of
stormy optimism and
brooding
melancholy that we must
often have marvelled to see mixed and commingled in
some Celt of our acquaintance.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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LIII
But meanwhile axe and lever
Have
manfully
been plied;
And now the bridge hangs tottering 445
Above the boiling tide.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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lt den
feindseligen
Ma?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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For here, O Lord,
For here they travel vainly, vainly pass
From city-pavement to
untrodden
sward
Where the lark finds her deep nest in the grass
Cold with the earth's last dew.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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” “How can you do that,” replied
Bentley, “when I have forgotten more than you
ever knew P”
57
Bentley's clever daughter Joanna once lamented
to her father that he had devoted his time and talents
to the
criticism
of the works of others instead of
writing something original.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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D'où des vérités que nous ne nous sentons pas le droit
de cacher, si bien qu'un athée
moribond
qui les a découvertes, assuré
du néant, insoucieux de la gloire, use pourtant ses dernières heures
à tâcher de les faire connaître.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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As an undergraduate he contributed
clever verse to the college paper, adopting the
pseudonym
"Q.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Darcy’s
look
and behaviour.
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| Source: |
Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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) formed in a
prodigality
of nature to show
[p.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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Alice was very glad to find her in such a
pleasant
temper.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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So
threaten
not, thou, with thy bloody spears,
Else thy sublime ears shall hear curses.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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_Grass_
Grass moves in the wind,
My soul is
backwards
blown.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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orie de toutes les
impressions
naturelles; et, loin
de vouloir les e?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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I only knew what hunted thought
Quickened
his step, and why
He looked upon the garish day
With such a wistful eye;
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Translated
by Thomas Roscoe.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Blessed art thou,
Simon
Barjona!
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Longfellow |
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It will be
difficult
insofar as your press and radio are mostly in Jewisch hands.
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| Answer: |
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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is it this I have
followed
by land and sea?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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_Tradescant_, a
collector
of curiosities.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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He’ll stroll round the
shelves and haul out first one book and then another, and now and again he’ll read you a
piece between little puffs of smoke,
generally
having to translate it from the Latin or
something as he goes.
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| Source: |
Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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Pale through
pathless
ways
The fancied image strays,
Famished, weeping, weak,
With hollow piteous shriek.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Although nearly everything in the world was either
dangerous
or poisonous, there
were certain things that had mysterious virtues.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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a, y premios de la
Fundacio?
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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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There the youths, together with the tender
maidens, twice a day
celebrating
your divinity, shall, Salian-like, with
white foot thrice shake the ground.
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Horace - Works |
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The capabili- ties of the sense exhausted; the eyes no longer see forms clearly, the ears don't hear sounds, the nose
doesn't sense odors, the tongue doesn't taste flavors, the touch ofthe body has little
pleasure
and mentally, memories are unclear, now remembered, now forgot- ten.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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And thou, my last, best, only, friend,
That fillest an
untimely
tomb,
Accept this tribute from the Bard
Thou brought from Fortune's mirkest gloom.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
Thus Socrates, despising not the meaner things of life, but bending
from the airy
speculations
of the proud to the realities which true
labour showed him, laid his ear, so to speak, close to the breast of
nature, and caught there the sound of her very heart-beats.
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| Source: |
A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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Albinus, who wrote a History in Greek, and shared the
consulship
with L.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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This view he readily aligns with his
hypothesis
regarding neurotic anxiety in adults.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bowlby - Separation |
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In both, urbane, intelligent minds
accumulate
a worldly knowledge which moves elegantly between bare facts and conven-
tional facades.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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In both, urbane, intelligent minds
accumulate
a worldly knowledge which moves elegantly between bare facts and conven-
tional facades.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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His father, Gratianus, sprung from modest stock near Cibalis, was called
Funarius
["Trace-horse"] because five soldiers were unable to wrest a slave-market rope from him while he was carrying it.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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I have heard but two arguments of any weight adduced in favour of passing
this Reform Bill, and they are in
substance
these:--1.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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It is the crowded home of ghosts,--
Wise and foolish
shoulder
to shoulder.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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All things here were with quite another air than at the Grand
Vizier's; and the very house
confessed
the difference between an
old devotee and a young beauty.
| Guess: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Without negotiating further, Caesar took with him the one legion which he brought from Alexandria and the troops of Calvinus and Deiotarus, and advanced against the camp of
Pharnaces
at Ziela.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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—I beleue that the moost worshypfull sacrament the alter, Christs very body forme bread, the same body that was borne
the blessed Virgin Mary, done the crosse, dead and buried, and that the thyrd day arose
are) everye
Chrystem
manne necessarely bound to confessed hys synnes priest ordayned the church not
After certein other communication thys was the Answere the good lord Cobham, “That from death lyfe, the which body nowe glo none otherwise wold declare his minde, nor
knoweth the holy commaundementes God, and performeth them the ende his life his power, shal without fayle saued
Christ, though neuer his lyse pyl grimage men vse now dayes, Caunter
conclusion, theyr assent and in sayd thus vnto him Come hyder.
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| Source: |
Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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--I might urge many
other
arguments
on this head, but I choose to pass
them over.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
|
I did a quick search of the web on the day of writing this, which
happened
to be 29 August 1998.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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So far winter has made active
operations
impossible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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The police posted on duty at religious
festivals
with a view to the
peace and security of pilgrims and worshippers must be paid out of
general revenues.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
|
And he after a brief pause replied, 'If you
consider
first of all that it is God who bestows on all kings glory and great wealth and no one is king by his own power.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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When, at last, by means of the play within the play, and the
puppets in their dalliance, Hamlet 'catches the conscience' of the King,
and drives the wretched man in terror from his throne,
Guildenstern
and
Rosencrantz see no more in his conduct than a rather painful breach of
Court etiquette.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - De Profundis |
|
267
And though on the earth it parts us with stern behest,
'Twill surely in God once more unite us, ever
blessed!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
|
org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its
original
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Song Inscribed To
Alexander
Cunningham
Now spring has clad the grove in green,
And strew'd the lea wi' flowers;
The furrow'd, waving corn is seen
Rejoice in fostering showers.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
burns |
|
Omnibus invenies, quae nunc
jactantur
in alto,
Navibus a portu lene fuisse fretum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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The favorite toy of the nineteenth century thus entered, the old Renais- sance
perspective
went into effect as usual, and the locomotive on
165
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| Source: |
Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
|
Therefore the
chances against its
existence
are as infinity to one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay |
|
vengeance, in
all their
eulogies
is maleficence; and being judge
seemeth to them bliss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
|
In fhort,
he was at once a
defpotic
Sovereign, a General, and a Mafter
of
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
|
Agreement on the control of atomic energy would result in a relatively greater disarmament of the United States than of the Soviet Union, even assuming
considerable
progress in building up the strength of the free world in conventional forces and weapons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
NSC-68 |
|
"It is all bright and merry and
sparkling
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
|
It wao
afterward
called
Aureliani, from the name of the people, and is now
Orleans.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
|
" To save the
royal family from
untimely
death was the obj ect of Madame
de S tael' s unceasing prayers and efforts.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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How seriously we may
take this swing of the
pendulum
is to be noted in a speech of the poet's
at the time of the Revolution: "Come," he said, "let us go shoot General
Aupick!
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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Whether a book is still in
copyright
varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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Not to mention several other advantages I derived from it, I shall only observe, that about this time, and but a very few years after my aedilship, I was
declared
the first praetor, by the unanimous suffrages of my fellow- citizens.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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Not knowing how to
extricate
himself put
But
;
it it
it
it a
it,
WILLIAM iiii] REMARKABLE PERSONS.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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Hamilton, for
Candidus
and Foreign Journal, 2s.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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Pepper plants replaced the prickly hedges of European fields;
sago-bushes, large ferns with gorgeous branches, varied the aspect of
this tropical clime; while nutmeg-trees in full foliage filled the air
with a
penetrating
perfume.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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[Illustration]
There was an old Person of Cromer,
Who stood on one leg to read Homer;
When he found he grew stiff, he jumped over the cliff,
Which
concluded
that Person of Cromer.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Each of those poems hit some one great point of universal attraction,
at least in their
respective
countries, and among the givers of fame in
others.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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"
"Then do things know
nothing?
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Chuang Tzu |
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Dashwood could spare
them perfectly well; and Elinor, who now
understood
her sister, and saw
to what indifference to almost every thing else she was carried by her
eagerness to be with Willoughby again, made no farther direct
opposition to the plan, and merely referred it to her mother's
decision, from whom however she scarcely expected to receive any
support in her endeavour to prevent a visit, which she could not
approve of for Marianne, and which on her own account she had
particular reasons to avoid.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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Thus, thus with hallow'd foot I touch the ground,
With thousand
blessings
by thy fortune crown'd.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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The Stock
Exchange will be pulled down, the horse plough will give way to the tractor, the country
houses will be turned into children’s holiday camps, the Eton and Harrow match will be
forgotten, but England will still be England, an everlasting animal
stretching
into the
future and the past, and, like all living things, having the power to change out of
recognition and yet remain the same.
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Orwell |
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