Oui, meme apres la mort, dans les
squelettes
pales
Il veut vivre, insultant la premiere beaute!
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his body, now
burning with fever, was soon covered with a cold sweat:
yet still had the child the force to constrain himself:
he pressed his little hands upon his mouth, and thus
suppressed the
complaints
that his sufferings were
forcing from him.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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The year 1525 he
spent with Erasmus, who had a regard for
him
bordering
on enthusiasm.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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[The King comes to Thebes, and thence
proceeds
to Hermopolis.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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It is a harmless thing,
The Holofernes I have made your show;
You may gaze
blithely
upon him.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Thou maruell'st at my words: but hold thee still,
Things bad begun, make strong
themselues
by ill:
So prythee goe with me.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I bent
My
footsteps
to the distant road.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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His death
appeared
to free the emperor from menaces
in the south.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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The
presents are
conveyed
to the tent of Achilles, where Briseis laments over
the body of Patroclus.
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Iliad - Pope |
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fair,
dreadful
Spirits--albeit this
Your accusation must confront my soul,
And your pathetic utterance and full gaze
Must evermore subdue me,--be content!
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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"--
"Here's
sculpture!
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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Moreover, the spatial
descriptions
("fernher " and "weg.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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The first of our ancestors, who acquired some
rights of
sovereignty
over the country of which
he was governor, was Tassillon, of Hohenzollern.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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It bears three
pictures
in inlaid metal – Io crossing the sea to Egypt in the shape of a heifer, Zeus restoring her there by a touch to human form, and the birth of the peacock from the blood of Argus slain.
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Moschus |
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And if
afterwards
you should be
obligedtogiveareasonforthem, wouldnotyoudoa trueway
itby havingrecoursetosomeoftheseotherHypotbe-?
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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Hall's
Complete
Poems,
intro.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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For the sake, therefore, of witnessing, upon as large a scale
as possible, a spectacle with which my sympathy was so entire, I used
often on Saturday nights, after I had taken opium, to wander forth,
without much regarding the
direction
or the distance, to all the markets
and other parts of London to which the poor resort of a Saturday night,
for laying out their wages.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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And of the
squirrel
as it flits near by.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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They would not even have been
heretics
without their claim to rebaptize.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Il ne comprit pas lui-même mon cri de
reconnaissance
et mes larmes
d'attendrissement.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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The Lord of the Flies is expanding his Reich;
All treasures, all
blessings
are swelling his might .
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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Slowness and deliberation are the last
qualities
suggested by Herrick.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Your lovyng wife, who erst dyd rid the londe 35
Of Lurdanes, and the treasure that you han,
Wyll falle into the
Normanne
robber's honde,
Unlesse with honde and harte you plaie the manne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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21:10 So the
Edomites
revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this
day.
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bible-kjv |
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XXXIX
He making speedy way through spersed ayre,
And through the world of waters wide and deepe,
To
Morpheus
house doth hastily repaire.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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29 [with Karen Van den Berg] Politik des des
Zeigens?
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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You have the right of life and death
Upon your slaves, Iridion, and yet
You do not beat, chain, or
imprison
them !
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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A differentiated science focuses on research and on
actualizing
as yet unknown truths or untruths for the sake of structuring the realm of possible propositions by means of the true/untrue code and on the basis of decision programs (theories, methods) related to this code.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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"of
wineskins
to carry outside.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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From the IVth Dynasty to the end of the
VIth, the number of the
inscriptions
increases; tablets set up to the
kings of the IVth Dynasty in memory of warlike raids are found in
the peninsula of Sinai, and funerary inscriptions abound.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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He that would dig a pit or a ditch was to dig it at the
distance
of its own depth from his neighbor's ground ; and he that would raise stocks of bees was not to place them within three hundred feet of those which another had already raised.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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Practice guru yoga and
supplicate
one- pointedly.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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These I esteemed the essentials of every
religion; and being to be found in all the religions we had in
our country, I respected them all, though with
different
degrees
of respect, as I found them more or less mixed with other ar-
ticles, which, without any tendency to inspire, promote, or con-
firm morality, served principally to divide us and make us
unfriendly to one another.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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2344
for such are the sums requisite to place his profits on a par with
others, and to replace his capital at the end of ten years; or, which is
the same thing, such are the
annuities
which 20,000_l.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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As he showed of late what an hurtful plague
ambition
is; so now he showeth that they must beware of covetousness, [avarice] and he maketh himself an example again, even in this point, that he did covet no man's goods; but did rather get his living with the work of his hands.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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what thy memory cannot contain,
Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find
Those
children
nursed, deliver'd from thy brain,
To take a new acquaintance of thy mind.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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That wealth of intellectual life
which
Washington
once hoped for his country has failed
to appear, and many who, weary of Europe, went to
America have come back, weary of America because
they could not breathe the exhausted air of the land
of the Almighty Dollar.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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Pray now tell me who can tell but that the Swiss, now so bold and warlike,
were formerly
Chitterlings?
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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He must not be a thing that began the world in a free school, was sent
from thence to the university, and is at his farthest when he reaches
the inns of court; has no
acquaintance
but those of his form in those
places; speaks the French he has picked out of old laws, and admires
nothing but the stories he has heard of the revels that were kept
there before his time.
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Selection of English Letters |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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XXIX
"Not that
forthwith
he lets the youth be seen,
Lest him the king of little wit arraign;
He first by his dispatches lets him ween,
That thither he Jocundo brings with pain:
Saying, that of his beauteous air and mien
Some secret cause of grief had been the bane,
Accompanied by a distemper sore:
So that he seemed not what he was before.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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- Francis
Fukuyama
http://www.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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The accommoda-
tion which knows about itself, having
sacrificed
its better knowledge to
'objective determinations,' no longer sees any need to expose itself
offensively and spectacularly.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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If, 'mid the shame of after-days,
The man who wronged his country's trust
(Yet now in worth
outweighed
all praise)
Remembered what this woman wrought,
It should have bowed him to the dust!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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In this charming season, which gives pain
to
separated
lovers, young Krishna sports and dances with young
damsels.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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On the contrary, a German professor wrote that the book "demonstrates how
amateurishly
some poet translators go about their task.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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Inthisregard,as one can easily see, official Marxism has the greatest ambition, since the
major part of its theoretical energy is dedicated to outflanking and
exposing all non-Marxist
theories
as 'bourgeois ideologies.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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The idea, the
envisioned
outward appearance, characterizes Being precisely for that kind of vision which recognizes in the visible as such pure presence.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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Becaufe, an
immediate
Peace was then extremely neceffary to
Philip's Affairs, but now to confume as much Time as they
poffibly could, before they required his Oath, was of equal ad-
vantage.
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| Question: |
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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Instead, download to your computer, and
transfer
to your reader device.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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She
measured
a less quantity into two other glasses and mixed each with similar ingredients.
| Guess: |
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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I praise her in no cause save verity's
None other dispraise, if ye
comprehend
me.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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God forgive me, I was as near laughing
yesterday
where I should
not: would you believe that I had the grace to go to hear a sermon
upon a week-day?
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Selection of English Letters |
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HIS PRAYER TO BEN JONSON
When I a verse shall make,
Know I have pray'd thee,
For old religion's sake,
Saint Ben, to aid me
Make the way smooth for me,
When, I, thy Herrick,
Honouring
thee on my knee
Offer my Lyric.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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DieAntwort
desBuddafur
unsere Zeit, Munich 1992; Klaus Schneider, Die schweigenden Gotter: eine Studie zur Gottesvorsteüung des religiósen Platonismus, Hildesheim 1966.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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I
mentioned
Alice Fell as
an instance; "Nay," replied my friend with more than usual quickness of
manner, "I cannot agree with you there!
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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No fault in
womankind
at all
If they but slip and never fall.
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Robert Herrick |
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A real Imperial Minister of Finance,
for example, responsible to the Reichstag, would obviously
supersede to a large extent the power and functions of the
Federal Council and transfer them partly to himself and
(no less
important)
partly to the Reichstag.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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It
shouldbe
said,however,thattheuniversitieswereinfactnever"ivory towers",evenintheirquietesttimes.
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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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Ⓡ
But nathèless, while I have time and space,
Ere that I further in this talè pace,
Me thinketh it
accordant
to reasón,
To tellen you all the conditión
Of each of hem, so as it seemed me,
And which they weren, and of what degree,
And eke in what array that they were in:
And at a knight then will I first begin.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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The protest of the
Republic
against
the Pope's censures as not to be revoked, but, on the Pope's
removing the censures, it was declared thereby to fall to the
ground.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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Read then of faith
That shone above the fagot;
Clear strains of hymn
The river could not drown;
Brave names of men
And
celestial
women,
Passed out of record
Into renown!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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He
subsequently
served as ambassador to Prussia and the United Kingdom, and was Minister of Foreign affairs from 1822 to 1824.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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Democracy is now a global or transnational phenomenon, meaning that it is the "only game in town," as
political
theorists of eastern Europe have phrased it.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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"
So spoke the god, in
semblance
of a sage
Renown'd for counsel and the craft of age.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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1 for
December
1815 read 1816
p.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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El Salvador remains an underweight going into
elections
which could further entrench the left-right divide as remittances from construction and service workers to the north support 2 percent growth as the sub-region laggard.
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Kleiman International |
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His second wife was the sister of Major Gammage, Commander of Trichinopoly, by whose death he
succeeded
to a hand some fortune.
| Guess: |
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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Plunge where the Reuss with
fearless
might has rent
His headlong way along a dark descent.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Aouda was a
relative
of this great man, and
it was his cousin, Jeejeeh, whom she hoped to join at Hong Kong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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Oh,
darkling
deities that guard the Nile,
Watch over one whose gods are far away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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Ussher thinks, that Sedulius
belonged
to the latter part of the fifth century, and that he died, about a.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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The same is true of the declama- tions on bourgeois slavery, because this outward slavery
presupposes
that inward, earlier, slavery already and by rights accompanies it.
| Guess: |
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
|
317
Though one may see that fierce
distracting
thoughts
Torture his soul, yet is he strong enough
To rule himself, command them into silence.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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" Moses himself becomes a mere figure of mythland, a hero of popular
imagination
whose sep- ulcher was unknown because it had never been occupied.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v01 |
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The best
security
to being rich is to get still richer, piling possession upon possession, giving oneself over to the auri sacra fames, the cursed greed for gold, the desire for more money than can be consumed in a thousand lifetimes of limitless indulgence, wanting in nothing but still more and more money.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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His ideal in poetry was the
jewelled
phrase, the gem-like verse, the exquisitely chiselled stanza or poem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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action of current
business—firmly
adhered to the principle, which it had laid down, that every burgess of an Italian community was by that very fact a burgess also of Rome; the distinctions between burgesses and Italian allies, between old burgesses with better, and new burgesses with more restricted, rights, were abolished, and remained so.
| Guess: |
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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TRANSLITERATION
it-bi-e-ma
iluGilgamis
su-na-tam i-pa-as-sar.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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For who will endeavour to obey
the Laws, if he expect
Obedience
to be Powred or Blown into him?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hobbes - Leviathan |
|
Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
|
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it
under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License
included
with this
eBook or online at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I
hastened
to take leave of
the Commandant and his family.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
This is
precisely
the issue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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What boy
wouldn’t
dread it?
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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The
Sutra says, "Oh Brahmin, the five organs (of sight, hearing, smell,
taste, touch) have
distinct
spheres (gocara) and objects {visaya).
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That is why history remains until the end only the continuation of the fall from
symbiosis
by other means.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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They saw the
to the extravagant extent of three syllables ; even if, as pointed out above, he denies
the
trisyllabic
feet .
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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= Cotgrave gives: 'Piccadilles: Piccadilles;
the severall
divisions
or peeces fastened together about the brimme
of the collar of a doublet, &c.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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It is well known how,
after some fruitless
attempts
at collaboration, the two friends
agreed to divide the field of poetry.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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Three carriers could have
brought all that was wanted to set that
steamboat
afloat.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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" said she to him, "you love
desperately
Miss Cunegonde of
Thunder-ten-Tronckh?
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Candide by Voltaire |
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Darcy had brought with him a Colonel Fitzwilliam, the younger son of
his uncle Lord ----, and, to the great
surprise
of all the party, when
Mr.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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Every other kind of perfection, even the warrior's,
is
different
in rank from that of the priests.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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What, if we,
The desolate and the dead, were his own flesh,
His children and his wife, whom he is bound _105
To love and
shelter?
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Shelley copy |
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On their return from the field of battle the peace, which had been achieved by their exertions, brought back their prison and their
chains: with
merciless
rigour the second consul, Appius Claudius,enforced the debtor-laws and his colleague, to whom
Secession to the Sacred Mount.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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They were a series of satires,
fanciful
enough in con-
ception, but serious and almost savage in spirit, on the most conspic-
uous society of the day: its vulgarity, vanity, shallowness, and
stupidity, the qualities inherent in the prevalent rivalry in money-
spending.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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Failed to the tune of ten
thousand
pounds.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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