Nay, what are
Priests?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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You, that was slain by the
Bulgarians!
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Candide by Voltaire |
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From this perspective, humanism is seen as the natural
accomplice
of all possible tortures which could be inflicted in the name of human well-being.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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[End of the Second Night]
Ahania heard the Lamentation & a swift
Vibration
Spread thro her Golden frame.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Fanatics
of Magyardom, on the other hand, do the impos-
sible in the
adoration
of their Turkish cousins.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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This is indeed a subdued sort of
blasphemy
for
Ovid; there are no divine burlesques in the
poems of his exile.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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Upon this fetuous board doth stand
Something
for show-bread, and at hand,
Just in the middle of the altar,
Upon an end, the fairy-psalter,
Grac'd with the trout-flies' curious wings,
Which serve for watchet ribbonings.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written
explanation
to the person you received the work from.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The following Early English lives do not belong to the great
Collection
of long-line "Saints' Lives" in the Harleian, Vernon, and other MSS, from which I printed a selec|tion*.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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He falls into the great Avici hell for an
intermediary
period
U9
(antarakalpa, iii.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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took very ready to learn ing, and is said to speak Greek by rote, when he did not
understand
Latin.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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’ The word
‘dead’
re-echoed in his mind, setting up its own train of
thought.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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Nguyễn
Bá Ký (?
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stella-02 |
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I like to believe—since I love her [the narrator says]—that if Lol is silent in her daily
xiv foreword
life it is because, for a split second, she
believed
that this word might exist.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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(To the couple) Run along and enjoy
yourselves!
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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Look, I'm not a
stranger!
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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The great objects of Marvell's veneration were
Cromwell
and Mil-
ton.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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" his majesty replied, that he
wondered
he should"
" think so, but that he would speak more to him of
" that subject the next day.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with
libraries
to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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Men should be more careful; this very
celibacy
leads
weaker vessels astray.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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On
attacherait
une importance toute
particulière au fait que M.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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On the other hand, as the traveler stays but a short
time in each place, his descriptions must
generally
consist of
mere sketches instead of detailed observations.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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" (See _Modern
Universal
History_, 1760, xxiv.
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Byron |
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\ If the
impermanent
discontinues
\ How could there be grass at present?
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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J'etais bien jeune, et Christ a souille mes haleines,
Il me bonda jusqu'a la gorge de degouts;
Tu baisais mes cheveux
profonds
comme des laines,
Et je me laissais faire!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Luther and the German Nation 235
of Flagellants, and ever louder and more despair-
ing -- almost as
heartrending
as in the earliest days
of Christian history -- grew the cry of the sinful
creature pleading for reconciliation with its Creator.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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"8'"
###
*#%"!
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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STANDARDS
OF TASTE IN ART.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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Hence the sage puts away
excessive
effort, extravagance, and easy
indulgence.
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Tao Te Ching |
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There were in fact exactly 70,000 cavalry and infantry in Jerusalem, not counting the women and children with them; not a surprising number when you
consider
that there were people there from Daru?
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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» Malheureusement il ne le répondait qu’en second,
car un autre Legrandin qu’il cachait
soigneusement
au fond de lui,
qu’il ne montrait pas, parce que ce Legrandin-là savait sur le nôtre,
sur son snobisme, des histoires compromettantes, un autre Legrandin
avait déjà répondu par la blessure du regard, par le rictus de la
bouche, par la gravité excessive du ton de la réponse, par les mille
flèches dont notre Legrandin s’était trouvé en un instant lardé et
alangui, comme un saint Sébastien du snobisme: «Hélas!
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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My
experiences
even with those on whom every
other man has burnt his fingers, speak without ex-
ception in their favour; I tame every bear, I can
make even clowns behave decently.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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The total number of books at present known to have been
issued by Wynkyn de Worde in the
sixteenth
century is about
six hundred and forty.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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Twelve herds of his
The mainland graze;[62] as many flocks of sheep;
As many droves of swine; and hirelings there
And
servants
of his own seed for his use,
As many num'rous flocks of goats; his goats,
(Not fewer than eleven num'rous flocks)
Here also graze the margin of his fields
Under the eye of servants well-approved,
And ev'ry servant, ev'ry day, brings home 130
The goat, of all his flock largest and best.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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If we have no good
evidence
that it is, we equally lack
evidence on the other side.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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Thus, like a Roman Tribune, thou thy gate
Early sets ope to feast, and late;
Keeping no currish waiter to affright,
With blasting eye, the appetite,
Which fain would waste upon thy cates, but that
The trencher creature marketh what
Best and more
suppling
piece he cuts, and by
Some private pinch tells dangers nigh,
A hand too desp'rate, or a knife that bites
Skin-deep into the pork, or lights
Upon some part of kid, as if mistook,
When checked by the butler's look.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Pálida lámpara alumbra
Con
trémula
claridad
Negras de humo las paredes
De aquella estancia infernal.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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I am
poisoned
with the rage of song.
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Imagists |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Trước
đây 6 năm mới mở một khoa thi lớn, nay theo qui chế nhà Chu, chỉ 3 năm mở một khoa cũng không ngần ngại.
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stella-02 |
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I shall place that statement by Derrida, who left us in 2004, at the head of the following
reflections
– not as a motto, but rather as a warning sign pointing out a particularly explosive semantic and political danger zone in today's world: the Near and Middle East, where, if Derrida was right, three messianic eschatologies embroiled in rivalry are ‘directly or indirectly’ mobilizing ‘all the powers in the world and the entire “world order” for the ruthless war they are
2
waging against one another’.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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"
While this was going on, one of the
ministers
of the goddess came hurriedly to the priest, and announced that a foreign maiden had taken refuge in the temple.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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ctica, en que no participan de aquel proceso de
abstraccio?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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The
confident
belief
of the Rayahs, supported by facts, that they can-
not be wholly sacrificed by Russia and the other
European Powers, is a spur which is continually
driving them on to new things, is an operative
power in the latest history of the Orient, and will
not be abolished by the strong words of the Eng-
lish Press.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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He
promised
'a new start'.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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_' This
estimate of the clergy must not be
overlooked
when considering the
struggle that went on in Donne's mind too before he crossed the
Rubicon.
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Donne - 2 |
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Taken
together
all of these word trucks will give you a heady meal for about ten dollars, either in the digital or print form, and it is gluten-free.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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His remarkably receptive and retentive mind had been open at
the university to all
influences
for culture, both permanent and
ephemeral.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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TO THE CLOUDS [NEPHELAI]
The
Fumigation
from Myrrh.
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Orphic Hymns |
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He has learned
to shrug his shoulders,
so he'll shrug his
shoulders
now:
caterpillars do it
when they're halted by a stick.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Hark how the wags abroad do call
Each other forth to rambling;
Anon you'll see them in the hall,
For nuts and apples scrambling,
Hark how the roofs with
laughters
sound,
Anon they'll think the house goes round:
For they the cellar's depths have found,
And there they will be merry.
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William Browne |
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She was taken home just as every one was going to a dance at Viceregal
Lodge--"Peterhoff" it was then--and the doctor found that she had fallen
from her horse, that I had picked her up at the back of Jakko, and
really
deserved
great credit for the prompt manner in which I had
secured medical aid.
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Kipling - Poems |
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A list of Latin errors was drawn up
in twenty-nine
articles
and published.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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On the other hand, the morally good is something whose object is supersensible; for which, therefore, nothing
corresponding
can be found in any sensible intu- ition.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
|
Man has himself 'a flash of the will that
can,' for he can use its distraught
elements
of life to a moral
purpose, and weld them in a spiritual harmony-out of three
sounds make, 'not a fourth sound, but a star.
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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The space next to the summer
constella
tion of the Lion, the neighbourhood of the winter Balance has long been empty.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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Puis il regardait des
photographies
d’il y avait deux ans, il se
rappelait comme elle avait été délicieuse.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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He made a bid for success
in almost every department of literature; but he is only remem-
bered as Doeg, the victim of some of the most
scathing
lines in
English satirical poetry.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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my father is very -- very
--very much--"
Displeased was the word he could
not say, but Mary
understood
it too
well.
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Childrens - Frank |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"
Forthwith
this frame of mine was wrench'd
With a woeful agony,
Which forc'd me to begin my tale
And then it left me free.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Once like thyself, I trembled, wept, and pray'd,
Love's victim then, tho' now a sainted maid:
But all is calm in this eternal sleep;
Here grief forgets to groan, and love to weep,
Ev'n superstition loses ev'ry fear:
For God, not man, absolves our
frailties
here.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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provinciam
Hirpanic»: cileriorenl optinuil.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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The external
influences
have been
identical; they have never been separated.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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— versus
salvation
of the soul, xvii.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
|
Laws for
themselves
they made for their own profit, and
left us nothing at all, no more than a dog or a sow.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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liTs cosmology runs oil in the track laid by Neo-
PlaioiusnTwithout
peouliarities worthy of mention.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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): “Mit der Dummheit
kämpfen
Götter selbst
vergebens" (With stupidity even the gods themselves.
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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It rustles at the window-pane, the smooth,
streaming
rain, and he is shut
within its clash and murmur.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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But if
you were
anywhere
else, living as good people live, I should perhaps be
more than attracted by you, should fall in love with you, should be
glad of a look from you, let alone a word; I should hang about your
door, should go down on my knees to you, should look upon you as my
betrothed and think it an honour to be allowed to.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
|
Result the
northern
kingdoms vassal states of Denmark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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The actual practice of prostration is found among the seven acts of devotion included in the Unification with the Spiritual Master, the
following
section and main practice, and it is proper to perform prostrations while reciting the verses of that practice.
| Guess: |
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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ASO holy angels
Sith
sleepeth
my child here Still ye the branches.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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igilii ii+Elsifi: EiiE
A giii:E
iEI iIiiE*EE;$
Ee-E'i'eEE
iEiiEiiilgI
isiei'i:?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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In a fair grove a bright young laurel made
--Surely to
Paradise
the plant belongs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
grands capitaines, princes, seigneurs, magistrats, officiers de la
couronne
& autres hommes illustres qui ont paru en France depuis cent soixante & quinze ans iusques a` present (Paris, 1617); Scaevole de Sainte-Marthe, Gallorum doctrina illustrium, qui nostra patrumque memoria floruerunt, elogia (Paris, 1602).
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
|
[347]
Philippus →
[348]
ANTIPHANES
{ Ph 10 } G
O parricide, man more savage than the beasts, all things hate you, everywhere your fate awaits you.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Greek Anthology |
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He spoke several harangues in a very sensible style, and three spirited invectives, which originated from our political disputes: and his defensive speeches, though not equal to the former, were yet
tolerably
good, and had a degree of merit which was far from being contemptible.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cicero - Brutus |
|
I will lay out my
argument
in five stages.
| 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 |
|
It is just his
fantastic
dreams, his vulgar folly that he
will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself--as though
that were so necessary--that men still are men and not the keys of a
piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that
soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
|
"
When Kung-wen Hsuan saw the Commander of the Right,5 he was
startled
and said, "What kind of man is this?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chuang Tzu |
|
-- Je veux te
raconter
une fable, re?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
|
Mary
Ratcliffe
now stands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
This
Indidment
is marked at fifty Talents.
| Guess: |
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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V
Voices
speaking
to the sun.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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The
improved
Theban material he treated in his
Third Book and about half of the Fourth.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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Thus it becomes the duty
of those who undertake to speak of such subjects, if they
must resign the hope of being positively understood by all
men, at least to guard carefully against
themselves
giving
occasion for any misconception; and, if they cannot bring
home the truth to all, yet to take care that no one, through
their fault, is led to receive anything false; and at least so
to equip and prepare those who possess the power of fully
comprehending their instructions, that these shall be able,
each in his own circle, to give an account of the truth, and
to correct the misapprehensions of others.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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When pleasant blasts gently stirred
the woods the motion of the branches made a continual delightsome
melody, like the sound of wind instruments in a solitary place: a
kind of clamour also was heard mixed with it, yet not
tumultuous
nor
offensive, but like the noise of a banquet, when some do play on wind
instruments, some commend the music, and some with their hands applaud
the pipe, or the harp.
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Lucian - True History |
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One dedicates in high heroic prose,
And
ridicules
beyond a hundred foes:
One from all Grubstreet will my fame defend,
And more abusive, calls himself my friend.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
"I should always be happy," replied Elinor, "to show any mark of my
esteem and
friendship
for Mr.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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It is narrated, as an instance of the extreme
brutality
of
these robbers towards the people of Italy, that when they have taken any
village or city, they not only put to death all the men capable of
bearing arms, but likewise all the male children, and do not even stop
here, but murder every pregnant woman who, their diviners say, will
bring forth a male infant.
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Strabo |
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Now Keynes whose fair is foul, foul is fair sentence can be taken as the quintessence of
something
or other, is the perfect protoclaire.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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To prefer others t6
ourselves, when virtue
Commands
the prefer-
ence's precisely that.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Within a minute I was in my own room,
undressed
and in bed.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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' The
first is, of course, intensely fascinating, for I see in Christ not
merely the essentials of the supreme romantic type, but all the
accidents, the
wilfulnesses
even, of the romantic temperament also.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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non auro cessisse videt
creberque
recurrit
nuntius incassum nec spes iam foederis extat : tandem consilium belli confessus agendi 325 ad sua tecta vocat.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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His precious flanks with stars besprent,
Worthy to swim in
Castaly!
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James Russell Lowell |
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Der Held, auch derjenige,
welcher schon bei Lebzeiten einer war, ersteht erst
nach seinem Tode in der Phantasie der Menschheit;
lebendig wird er nicht vertragen, weil seine Erschei-
nung nicht zum
Erdenleben
passt.
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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Moreover
Aetolian Leda sent from Sparta strong Polydeuces and Castor, skilled to guide swift-footed steeds; these her dearly-loved sons she bare at one birth in the house of Tyndareus; nor did she forbid their departure; for she had thoughts worthy of the bride of Zeus.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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