His father the tusk of Oeta slew,
crushing
his body in the regions of the belly.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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This she said, and
besought
me earnestly by the Sun, an
adjuration which no sage dare violate, to do what she desired of me.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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Why hast thou
awakened
the heart within me, O Rose of the crimson thorn?
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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Photius' introduction: We read the
historical
work of Memnon from the ninth book to the sixteenth book.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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What is important about China from the
standpoint
of world history is not the present state of the reform or even its future prospects.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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No poet will ever take the written word as a
substitute
for
the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken
word only, that his art is founded.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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To strive, too, with our fate were such a strife
As if the corn-sheaf should oppose the sickle:
Men are the sport of circumstances, when
The
circumstances
seem the sport of men.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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Under certain circumstances,
the appearance of the extremest form of Pessimism
and actual Nihilism might be the sign of a process
of incisive and most
essential
growth, and of man-
kind's transit into completely new conditions of
existence.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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'"
James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a
number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and
submitted to the
defending
counsel.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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This brought us so/sw, that even in xealous Scotland,
there was not, at his death, (which happen'd soon after)
one
presbyterian
publick meeting, but what dropped of it self ; and all came to church, when they faw there was
nothing to be got by staying out of it !
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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Under the name of
Sangitiparyaya, this matrka takes its place among the seven canonical Abhi- 6
One school, more famous than the others, and which was perhaps the first to constitute
standardized
baskets of Vinaya and of Sutra, was the school of the Pali language, also the first to compile a third basket.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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This differs from the Septuagint
translation
by 1,235 years.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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at were
enbrawded
& beten wyth ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I would say that only if we were truly ourselves, only if the
infinite possibility which is radically contained in every human life - and you may think me an old-fashioned Enlightenment thinker, but I am deeply convinced that there is no human being, not even the most wretched, who has not a potential which, by
conventional
bourgeois
?
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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All
was known to Csesar; and when Maximus soon after-
wards died, by a death some thought to be self-
inflicted, there were heard at his funeral wailings from
Marcia, in which she
reproached
herself for having
been the cause of her husband's destruction.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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)
Epeius of Phocis has given unto the man-goddess Athena, in
requital
of her doughty counsel, the axe with which he once overthrew the upstanding height of god-builded walls, in the day when with a fire-breath’d Doom he made ashes of the holy city of the Dardanids and thrust gold-broidered lords from their high seats, for all hew was not numbered of the vanguard of the Achaeans, but drew off an obscure runnel from a clear shining fount.
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Pattern Poems |
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A situationof open conflictand the
formationof
cliques
In theold German studentshad had no voice.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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It shows very impressively how Clausewitz enviously emulated Napoleon and, how the highly gifted Prussian officer wished to repeat the
unprecedented
successes of revolutionary French bellicism for the German side.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Robbers and
smugglers
could breathe freely
here.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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l *en&efi w otb&ti
frankb'ferf orfw ,npirtovr iooq sdt 998 ot
yf^iBut,
afterfuHj
Ji should never even
then be stfcure of not being afraid, in
anynneommon danger, o* in anylthat
wa>> inew to mot" in J ^otad eiflfneb
" Being accustomed to dangeflig/rf
different kinds, though a great advan-
WagejbiwtoirJot absoDutelyHinece^aary tp
?
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Childrens - Frank |
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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There have I sat by many a tree
And leaned oer many a rural stile,
And conned my
thoughts
as joys to me,
Nought heeding who might frown or smile.
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John Clare |
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Oh, did my
withered
heart but dare
To kindle for the bright and good,
Should not I find the charms still there?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most
brightly
mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
"That's
everything?
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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Scientists who hide their will to power
r
om
themselves
and conceive of experience only as knowledge about "objects"
o-nnot achieve that knowledge acquired by accumulating experience in the form
a
Ut a me
journey to the "real" things.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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But by the
beginningof the 1960s, large fieldslike modernhistorywere stillrepre-
sentedbyonlyone
professorandwholefacultiess,uchas the"philosophical faculty"m,ighthaveonly20or30members.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The lot gave him
Sardinia
(0v.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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Gradually
he grew to hate
himself.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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As part of an overarching thesis of Glauben und Wissen, Hegel exploits the vulgar or popular formulations and represses the philosophically sophisticated insights - especially those, one might suppose, that were most influential to Hegel's own
fledgling
philosophical system.
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Hegel_nodrm |
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But for my lord Nor
Denial, which
sufficient
Answer; specially thumberland, sent not him.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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The
crew leaped
overboard
and became dolphins.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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At
least, this is the opinion of one of the
most learned and best
esteemed
among the
biographers of the great king of Sweden.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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Theocritus
was staying on the island, during his journey to visit Ptolemy at Alexandria.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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When
Disraeli
said in his novel Tancred that the East was a career, he
meant that to be interested in the East was something bright young Westerners would find to be
an all consuming passion; he should not be interpreted as saying that the East was only a career
for Westerners.
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| Question: |
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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- What have you done, O you there
Who
endlessly
cry,
Say: what have you done, there
With youth gone by?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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for look ye, country man, ours are
original
rights!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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During
the
Napoleonic
wars she secured Finland, and gained a larger
portion of Poland at the Congress of Vienna.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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First
complete
ed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
|
Then he felt
something
hard, in her pocket or his.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a
flattering
word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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The herb Pantagruelion hath a little root
somewhat hard and rough, roundish, terminating in an obtuse and very blunt
point, and having some of its veins, strings, or
filaments
coloured with
some spots of white, never fixeth itself into the ground above the
profoundness almost of a cubit, or foot and a half.
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| Question: |
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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Thou gentle maid of silent valleys and of modest brooks:
For thou shall be clothed in light, and fed with morning manna:
Till summers heat melts thee beside the
fountains
and the springs
To flourish in eternal vales: they why should Thel complain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
The
sentence
structure and phras- ing of the original were maintained wherever possible, given the tremendous dif- ferences of English syntax from the original.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
|
Nay những người
được
đề tên vào tấm đá này, cho dù nay đã có nửa phần tuổi tác đã cao, nhưng con người trung chính hay tà ngụy thế nào, việc làm được mất nên hư thế nào, công luận nghiêm xét, ngàn đời khó trốn.
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stella-02 |
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At another time, he said that ‘Eliza'
ought to be celebrated in as many
languages
as Louis le Grand,
a
a
23-2
## p.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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that part of the public, who,
from the title of the work and from its forming a sort of introduction
to a volume of poems, are likely to constitute the great
majority
of
your readers.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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Jamque
oratores
aderant ex urbe Latina,
Velati ramis oleae, veniamque rogantes.
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| Source: |
Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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By taking a single step further, one could define them as animals that reproduce or breed themselves, while other animals are
bredöan
idea that has been current as part of Europe's pastoral folklore since Plato.
| 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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Simultaneously, we are more enthusiastic than ever before about new (or recently augmented) editions of classic texts with
extensive
commentaries.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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To think that you could
not
understand
that you were being quizzed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
|
Lo, how again, again, I rend and tear
My woven raiment, and from off my hair
Cast the
Sidonian
veil!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
The trade
of Comacchio was chiefly confined to salt, but we shall
presently
see how
Venice went to war with her rivals in order to secure a monopoly of this
commodity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
|
He gave me this message for his friends and
relations
at Lo Yang:
My heart is a piece of ice in a jade cup.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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ntica, en la ausencia de
recuerdos
bis- to?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
|
My
teachers
are not my real teachers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
|
e of your mind, maintain the true process, if he can't hitch to it, don't
disgrace
yourself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
|
VIRAG: _(A
diabolic
rictus of black luminosity contracting his visage,
cranes his scraggy neck forward.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Joyce - Ulysses |
|
Once he saw a fat, stupid ass
Grinning
at him from a green place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Keep to the bare necessities for
sustaining
your life and warding off the bitter cold; reflect on the fact that nothing else is really needed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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Ericapæus [Erikapaios],
celebrated
pow'r, ineffable, occult, all shining flow'r.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orphic Hymns |
|
Was it indeed the
country bishop, or rather the rhetorician
Augustin
who, in a burst of
gratitude, hit upon this sublime sentence?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
|
What had
ripened in the quiet work of hard decades appeared
to the next generation merely as a wonderful
chance, as the happy
adventure
of an ingenious
brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
|
That is what I am talking about when I speak of
lacking
educational
establishments.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
|
in this precarious situation in which the success of our task is at the very least not solely within our own rational power and seems to depend on some kind of grace, a philosopher, in his attempts to write about love, might be best off doing his work both
actually
'out of love' as well as 'in the name of love'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
|
"
Everyone
hastened, gulled by the dissolute boy, who feigning
Earnest, had summoned them all (Fame by no means lagged behind).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
See The Military Balance 1 9 93-94 (London: International
Institute
of Strategic Studies, 1993).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Revolution and War_nodrm |
|
155
trumps and tabors, and other manner of minstrelsy, to the hall-door, where he shall find the Lord of Whichenovre, or his steward, ready to deliver the bacon in this manner;— '
He shall inquire of him which
demandeth
the bacon, if he have brought twain of his neighbours with him ; which must answer, ' they be here ready.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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But
in the five months October 1929 to March 1930,
France
exported
to the Soviet Union goods to the
value of $5,700,000, while in the same five months,
1930-31, French exports to the Soviet Union fell off
to $1,300,000.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
|
One of the most
recognized
Lost or Ype ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
|
So wails with a mighty lament
the voice of the mortals, who dwell
In the Eastland, the home of the holy,
for thee and the fate that befel;
And they of the
Colchian
land, the
maidens whose arm is for war;
And the Scythian bowmen, who roam
by the lake of Maeotis afar;
And the blossom of battling hordes,
that flowers upon Caucasus' height,
With clashing of lances that pierce,
and with clamour of swords that smite.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
f sublime [bodhisattvas], let alone
ordinary
persons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
|
[759] And in it was wrought Phoebus Apollo, a stripling not yet grown up, in the act of shooting at mighty Tityos who was boldly dragging his mother by her veil, Tityos whom
glorious
Elate bare, but Earth nursed him and gave him second birth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
|
"
This brief and rough characterisation has been made to bear the interpre-
tation that Virgilius had published a philosophical treatise setting forth
the view that there are Antipodes,
possibly
in dependence upon Martianus
Capella's teaching.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
|
Thus, we do not
necessarily keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper
edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
” The life of the Emperor himself, closely
associated
with all the
CH.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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When they sometimes
Come down the stairs at night and stand perplexed
Behind the door and headboard of the bed,
Brushing their chalky skull with chalky fingers,
With sounds like the dry
rattling
of a shutter,
That's what I sit up in the dark to say--
To no one any more since Toffile died.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
In other words, I think the professorial dimension of speech, which, in the doctor's case, is merely additive, if you like, a way of increasing his prestige and making what he says a little more true, is much more essential and much more inherent in the case of the psychiatrist; the professorial dimension ot the psychiatrist's words is
constitutive
of his medical power.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
|
Enough for the present: nor will I add one
word more, lest you should suspect that I have
plundered
the escrutoire
of the blear-eyed Crispinus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Works |
|
In a dedication to his
absolute
lord,
^ -
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
|
The first example
illustrates
that when some of the parts are missing, the whole cannot exist.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
|
I hear your mothers and your sires
Cry from their
purgatorial
fires,
And will ye not their ransom pay?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Come, Hymen, Hymen, bless the
marriage
night.
| Guess: |
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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Will there not develop naturally, then, a competition between Italy and Germany for a rapproche- ment with Britain and the United States as the only solution of their respective financial and economic
difficulties?
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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, as prescribing only the form of
the maxim as universally legislative), it
abstracts
as a determining
principle from all matter that is to say, from every object of
volition.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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Stars
HOW
countlessly
they congregate
O'er our tumultuous snow,
Which flows in shapes as tall as trees
When wintry winds do blow!
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In arguing "that narrative in general, from the folktale to the novel, from the annals to the fully realized has to do with the topics of law, legality, legitimacy, or, more generally, White, for instance, holds that the narrativizing of events has nothing to do with an understanding of "reality" but is determined by a human desire to achieve a masterful, dominat- ing position vis-a-vis
external
events, which, in turn, will allow the cognizing subject to conceive of his or her own ego as a knowledgeable, ?
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Miss Tilney was earnest, though gentle, in her
secondary
civilities, and
the affair became in a few minutes as nearly settled as this necessary
reference to Fullerton would allow.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty also has a notion of
situated
freedom, one in which we are free but not entirely free.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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Let your line be the finest adventure
Afloat on the tense dawn wind
That goes
wakening
thyme and mint.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Al ultimo acento de estos versos, de quien so-
las las cuerdas murmuraban, mas por haverle de-
jado , que por ofendidas de la mano que las he-
ria , llegaron Aminadab y Palmyra, que recibidos
con aplauso de todos, y
dandoles
el mejor lugar,
tomaron assiento.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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Thorpe has--He may be
mistaken
again perhaps; he led me into
one act of rudeness by his mistake on Friday.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Why are you
weeping?
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Aristophanes |
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With them the one idea of policy was war, but the native
lords, who had more at stake and had
acquired
the habits and ideas of the
East, were not unwilling to make terms with their Muslim neighbours.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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He was charmed with those virtues and miracles wrought by our saint, and believing that every thing should prosper there for the monks under his management, Samson was
appointed
baker for the monastery.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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Et loca eorum usque hodie
successoiibus
sancti Barri ser- viunt.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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It neither includes the possession of high
moral excellence, nor of
necessity
even the ornamental graces of manner.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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My head I cannot
withdraw
from thy sentence, when once thy
sentence hath been passed on my head.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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Wonderful
to depart!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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