Yet here to crazy age we're brought,
Wi'
something
yet.
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burns |
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Fremantle
a n · ,
Dead, 250 above.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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We have met the
precious
teachings of the greater vehicle.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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To this his companion replies, quoting with little altera
—
The heavens and all the
quarters
of the sky, The moon, the light-creating sun, the winds, This earth, the spirits of the dead, the god Of Justice, and the inner soul itself,
Witness man's actions, be they good or bad.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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Wishing to wake, I heard the sunrise bell
Commanding men to come forth and examine
themselves
in meditation.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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130
146 SOCIAL RESEARCH
eternal present did not
experience
our problem.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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(2003)
Bargaining
and the Nature ofWar, mimeo.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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Presently
she began to speak of Caunus not as her
brother but as her lord, and she preferred to have him call her not sister
but Byblis.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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The rule is, not to besiege walled cities if it can
possibly
be avoided.
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The-Art-of-War |
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Desde siempre, ésta, cuan do hablaba claramente, se había manifestado como monosferología impe rial, y cuando Hitler, en sus fantasías, sustituye la esvástica por la bola del mundo
también
él es, por un segundo, un filósofo clásico.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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But Sohrab saw his thought, and held his hands,
And with a
soothing
voice he spoke, and said:--
[_Father and son embrace.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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An ròi bưng nước mau man,
Đeoi cho cha mẹ, keo lâu
người
chờ.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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More recent studies have
changed the value he found, without
invalidating
his method.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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"
"Every extensive country may thus be considered as possessing a
gradation of machines for the production of corn and raw materials,
including in this gradation not only all the various qualities of poor
land, of which every
territory
has generally an abundance, but the
inferior machinery which may be said to be employed when good land is
further and further forced for additional produce.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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My
movement
dwells in the stillness of my depth,
In the delicious birth of new leaves,
In flood of flowers,
In unseen urge of new life towards the light.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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Madame Roland's
apostrophe
was
'O Liberte, que de crimes l'on commet en ton nom!
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William Wordsworth |
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Jason
deserted
Medea for
Creusa.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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It is different from other ducts, for it seems to be a part
of the cavity from which it extends, inasmuch as when the cavity of the
uterus is enlarged in the
progress
of pregnancy, this canal is gradually
converted into a part of that cavity.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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None felt stern Nature rocking at his feet,
And yawning forth a grave for those who lay
Upon their
bucklers
for a winding-sheet;
Such is the absorbing hate when warring nations meet.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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' I had met
The fierce
encounter
of the voluble rock.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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If I had the privilege, which unfortunately I have not got, of
suggesting things to the legislators in my individual capacity, I would
so enjoy the
opportunity
that I would not charge anything for it at all.
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Twain - Speeches |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
reminder
of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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To get into the morass up to your
eyebrows
and no man living can see WHEN you will get out of it.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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Let him who smiles at my inquietude,
Who never trembled at a fear like mine,
Know that in their decrepitude's despite
These seven old hideous
monsters
had the mien
Of beings immortal.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Hernani [coming from among the
Conspirators]
—
Since to this
I claim to be included!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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The Conspiracie, And Tragedie of Charles Duke of Byron,
Marshall
of
France.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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2) The
Galleries
and street mobs.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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only three
guineas for the what d'ye call it--the
selleridge?
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Then comes the
prayer of the chorus verse, repeated after each stanza
of the Psalm (verses 3, 7, 14,
slightly
varied but
?
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| Source: |
Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:24 GMT / http://hdl.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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I've had the good fortune to lay hands on a new instrument with which we can observe a tiny corner of the
universe
a little more closely, not much though.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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i=aFi:;j5;r'-t==
oE oo F -co)
i- ;
+t+lz=izl
1i;: :
z -.
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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But what matters an eternity of
damnation
to him who
has found in one second an eternity of enjoyment?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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' I had grown suddenly angry, and seizing the
_alembic_ from the table, was about to rise and strike him with it,
when the peacocks on the door behind him appeared to grow immense; and
then the _alembic_ fell from my fingers and I was drowned in a tide
of green and blue and bronze feathers, and as I
struggled
hopelessly
I heard a distant voice saying: 'Our master Avicenna has written that
all life proceeds out of corruption.
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Yeats |
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Then the wise man may indeed know that the
physician
has some kind
of science or knowledge; but when he wants to discover the nature
of this he will ask, What is the subject-matter?
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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His
egoism hinders him here: in general, he looks
"aloft”
unwillingly
- he looks either forward,
horizontally and deliberately, or downwards-he
knows that he is on a height.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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However, they will soon recover themselves, and will
tell his Grace, or his learned council, that all such
property belongs to the nation, -and that it would
be more wise for him, if he wishes to live the natural
term of a citizen, (that is, according to Condorcet's
calculation, six months on an average,) not to pass
for an usurper upon the
national
property.
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Edmund Burke |
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The
coracine is
exceptional
among fishes in deriving benefit from drought,
and this is due to the fact that heat and drought are apt to come
together.
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Aristotle |
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shall each wronged and restless spirit dare
To taint such wine with the salt poison of own
despair!
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Wilde - Charmides |
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And if all were senters -
granted, they would have more to ask, somewhat as
a
security
for the enjoyment of what is granted,
that shall preserve their power, and shake the whole
frame of the government.
| Guess: |
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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This is more obvious in Paris than
anywhere
else.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
|
Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to
digitize
public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Tully - Offices |
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A
At this place in the litany, however, Zarathustra
could no longer control himself; he himself cried
out Ye-a, louder even than the ass, and sprang into
the midst of his
maddened
guests.
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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Away with you and all your
withered
flowers,
I have a flower in my soul no one can take!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Thus disembroiled, they take their proper place;
The next of kin
contiguously
embrace;
And foes are sundered by a larger space.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
|
Probably
you would
not be very tolerant (tolerance was not your leading virtue) of Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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It is scarcely to
be imagined that
Infinite
Benevolence would create a being capable of
enjoying so much more than is here to be enjoyed, and qualified by
nature to prolong pain by remembrance, and anticipate it by terrour, if
he was not designed for something nobler and better than a state, in
which many of his faculties can serve only for his torment; in which he
is to be importuned by desires that never can be satisfied, to feel many
evils which he had no power to avoid, and to fear many which he shall
never feel: there will surely come a time, when every capacity of
happiness shall be filled, and none shall be wretched but by his own
fault.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
|
Pupils are
given
physical
training, aesthetic training, and moral training.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
|
Last but not least of the three plays, it
had been announced "by a separate advertisement (_Morning Chronicle_,
November 24, 1821), for the purpose of
exciting
the greater curiosity"
(_Memoirs of the Life, etc.
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
O'Donovan, in the Tenth Article of his edited Miscellany of the Irish
Archaeological
Society, vol.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
|
15 From this, it follows that theology is, as Isaiah Berlin
describes
it, "nothing but grammar concerned with the words of the
Holy Ghost.
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| Source: |
Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
|
He, from the taste obscene
reclaims
our youth,
And sets the passions on the side of truth,
Forms the soft bosom with the gentlest art,
And pours each human virtue in the heart.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
And among the few
who do know,—how many observe
themselves?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
|
The general conception thus gained is then employed to decide the special problem proposed, and this subordi nation of the particular under the general is thus worked out as the
fundamental
relation of scientific knowledge.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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" So he took a normal birth to show that he was sharing the
conditions
of all humans.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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Any
talented
person can carry on this tradition.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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Specially
per- fected to relate the events of an individual life within a stable society, it enabled the novelist to record, describe, and explain the weakening, the vections, the involutions, and the slow disorganization of a particular system in the middle of a universe at rest.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
|
"
This said, up to his coach they all ascend,
On his swift wheels forth rolled the chariot light,
He gave his coursers fleet the rod and rein,
And galloped forth and eastward drove amain;
LXXXVI
While silent so through night's dark shade they fly,
The hermit thus bespake the young man stout:
"Of thy great house, thy race, thine offspring high,
Here hast thou seen the branch, the bole, the root,
And as these
worthies
born to chivalry
And deeds of arms it hath tofore brought out,
So is it, so it shall be fertile still,
Nor time shall end, nor age that seed shall kill.
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| Source: |
Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
|
The price to
subscribers
5s.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Hé aquí la historia de mis _Dos
vireyes_
y de la primera salida del
Quijote de los poetas, á hacer por el mundo real la vida fantástica de
los pájaros y de los locos.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Jose Zorrilla |
|
LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of
Replacement
or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
And
forasmuch
as all have toil in lying, what crieth the
Mat.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:10 GMT / http://hdl.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
|
This English tradition is nicely expressed by Giles Fraser, an Anglican vicar who doubles as a
philosophy
tutor at Oxford, writing in the Guardian.
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
|
At this the Lord omnipotent thrice
thundered
sharp
from high heaven, and with his own hand shook out for a sign in the sky
a cloud ablaze with luminous shafts of gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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“he
beguiled
Aegon to compete at Olympia though he is but a poor hand at boxing (cf.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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in a far more
abstract
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-Metaphysics |
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Even Y's very
accomplished
young wife was 'a Communist,' who came from a still successful military family.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
|
Some of the noblest exertions of the human mind have been set in motion
by the necessity of
satisfying
the wants of the body.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
|
Behind her burned
The sky, held by the open kiln of the town
In a great breath of fire, yellow and red,
From out the
festival
streets, and myriad links.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
And finally the general public Was warned that political democracy could be
preserved
only if "economic power" were distributed among us, presumably in equal doses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
|
OF GRACE
(BALLATA, FRAGMENT) ii
FPULL well thou knowest, song, what grace I mean,
E'en as thou know'st the
sunlight
I have lost.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
CHILDREN'S SAYINGS
there was a time in his life when he had to
push against
something
that resisted, to be
sure that there was anything outside of him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Children's Sayings |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
|
idem |
venturos
tollemus ad astra nepotes
( iidem, idem -- crasis.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
|
How am I
honoured
so,
If I no honour have for the world, but rather
Hold it an odious and traitorous thing,
That means no honour but to those whose spirits
Have yielded to its ancient lechery?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
All this work of Greene had meant a
considerable
contribution
to the literature dealing with contemporary life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
|
"And of
himselfe
imaginid he ofte
To ben defaitid, pale and woxin lesse
Than he was wonte, and that men saidin softe,
What may it be?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
|
Only the stars of my own native sky
Were the mute
witnesses
of what was done,
And looked on my mysterious, rapid course.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
|
52
Tra noi tenere un uom che sia sì forte,
contrario
è in tutto al principal disegno.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
|
"
Still he stood and eyed me hard,
An earnest and a grave regard:
"What, lad,
drooping
with your lot?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
That for which
millions
prayed and sighed,
That for which tens of thousands fought,
For which so many freely died,
God cannot let it come to naught.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
It is scarcely to
be imagined that
Infinite
Benevolence would create a being capable of
enjoying so much more than is here to be enjoyed, and qualified by
nature to prolong pain by remembrance, and anticipate it by terrour, if
he was not designed for something nobler and better than a state, in
which many of his faculties can serve only for his torment; in which he
is to be importuned by desires that never can be satisfied, to feel many
evils which he had no power to avoid, and to fear many which he shall
never feel: there will surely come a time, when every capacity of
happiness shall be filled, and none shall be wretched but by his own
fault.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
|
would I be turned back from
doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right,
by the airs and
interference
of such a person, or of any person I may
say?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Persuasion |
|
It's clear that power should not be defined as a constraining act of
violence
that represses individuals, forcing them to do something or preventing them from doing some other thing.
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Then I straightened myself out up in my tree, and for the
first time for a long while, once more looked fairly out into the
land, and saw how a few ships were already sailing down the
Danube between the vineyards, and how the still empty high-
ways swung themselves like bridges across the glistening coun-
try, far out over the
mountains
and valleys.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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What woman who envied me then does not my calamity now compel to pity one
deprived
of such delights?
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Moreover, he pointed out that if the warning
to approach
cautiously
were to be followed, we must approach in
daylight--not at dusk, or in the dark.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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Therefore
all in the world delight to exalt him and do not weary of
him.
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Tao Te Ching |
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Because of one's
confusion
one is not ready to rec- ognize ultimate nature at the outset.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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Further
reproduction
prohibited without permission.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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"Nietzsche's Metaphysics," a typescript dated August-Decem- ber 1940,
apparently
derived from an unscheduled and hereto- fore unlisted course on Nietzsche's philosophy [Nil, 257-333].
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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I am sure that you need me, that I
can be of use to you; and, since that is so, I must not allow myself
to be
distracted
by any trifle.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Are they perhaps those happy few who let us know that they are graciously available - but that their availability should not be taken
advantage
of?
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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"Transfer of Erin: or the
Acquisition
of
Ireland by England," chap, xiii.
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# And in the Troas in former times all who wished it were at liberty to collect salt at Tragasae; but when Lysimachus became ruler there, and put a tax on it, that, too, disappeared: and as he
marvelled
at this, as soon as he remitted the tribute and left the place free, the salt came again.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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Note: Ronsard plays on the identification of Helen with Helen of Troy, born of Leda, and Jupiter
disguised
as a swan.
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Ronsard |
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Hence in the libraries of western Asia clay books inscribed with cuneiform characters must have been stored up, while beside them must have been the schools, where the pupils bent over their exercises and the
teachers
instructed them in the language and script of the foreigner.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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The note of the Heroic Age, then, is vehement private individuality
freely and greatly
asserting
itself.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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