It were but madnes now t'impart 5
The skill of
specular
stone,
When he which can have learn'd the art
To cut it, can finde none.
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Donne - 1 |
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" cried Squealer, making little
nervous
skips, "a most
terrible thing has been discovered.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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And they stood three men on each war chariot, and there were assembled in one spot the best heroes of the army of Khita, well appointed with all
weapons
for the fight.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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A Honshu
prhiripe
notus erat.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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192 The
Question
of Power
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Foucault-Live |
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Gat ye me, O gat ye me,
O gat ye me wi'
naething?
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Robert Forst |
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Lady
Charlotte
Edwine is gone to
Bristol, I fear far gone in a consumption.
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Alexander Pope - v10 |
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Þanon eft
gewiton
eald-gesīðas,
855 swylce geong manig of gomen-wāðe,
fram mere mōdge, mēarum rīdan,
beornas on blancum.
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Beowulf |
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Among other raids, they attacked Morgantina, a strong and well-fortified city, with great fury and made fierce and continual
assaults
upon it
6 G The Roman general marched out in the night, with about ten thousand men from Italy and Sicily, with the intention of relieving the city.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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When the ruling idea of his life gained ascendancy
over his mind—the idea that drama is, of all arts,
the one that can
exercise
the greatest amount of
influence over the world — it aroused the most
active emotions in his whole being.
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Nietzsche - v04 |
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Qllustrious men have often been told, by their teachers, in their youth " that they were always in one
extreme
or another.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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XIX
LA RANÇON
L'homme a, pour payer sa rançon,
Deux champs au tuf profond et riche,
Qu'il faut qu'il remue et défriche
Avec le fer de la raison;
Pour obtenir la moindre rose,
Pour extorquer
quelques
épis,
Des pleurs salés de son front gris
Sans cesse il faut qu'il les arrose.
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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The
digital
images and OCR of this work were produced by Google, Inc.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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Exactly the same thing might have happened with the categories of reason: the latter, after much
groping
and many trials, might have proved true through relative usefulness.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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_515
NOTE:
_508 merchant's 1824;
merchant
B.
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Shelley |
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God me
graunte
so heuene blis,
As me mette ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Others
tell of a mysterious initiation at the sacred cave of Jupiter in Crete,
and of a similar ceremony at the
Delphic
oracle.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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It is guaranteed to impress or infuriate, at five
hundred
paces.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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The goddess, beckoning, waves her
deathless
hands:
Dauntless the king before the goddess stands:
"Then why (she said), O favour'd of the skies!
| Guess: |
shining |
| Question: |
What does the king say to the goddess? |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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A Late Walk
WHEN I go up through the mowing field,
The
headless
aftermath,
Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy dew,
Half closes the garden path.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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At last
Zourine
glanced at the clock,
put down his cue, and told me I had lost a hundred roubles.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Enough, I still live; and life
is not
considered
now apart from ethic; it _will_ [have] deception; it
thrives (lebt) on deception .
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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3^ About the middle of the ninth century, the
Northmen
committed great ravages, in Frisia and in Holland,37 which they invaded.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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proportional, the
lengths
of the
two solids are in the same ratio
ft.
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Tuyl - 1911 - Complete business arithmetic |
|
And I
believe
that this is also the case for most of the colleagues of my age who claim to have been early champions of the electronic revolution (I recently saw one of them dropping the laptop from his knees three times in one hour of discus- sion).
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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", called
Kohlhaas and disappeared into
another
dark hole.
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Orwell - 1984 |
|
' Malone here refers to
quotations
taken from Gosson
and Lodge.
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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νύν ούν υμείς μοι της
παρούσης νομοθεσίας αντιφυλάξατε επόμενοι εάν
άρα τι μη προς αρετήν
τείνον
ή πρός αρετής
μόριον νομοθετώ.
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Plato - 1926 - Laws |
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os, que ha viendo de
hacerse la esquila de sus
ganados
en Baal.
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| Question: |
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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Count how many they come
To the beat of Piedmont's drum,
With faces keener and grayer
Than swords of the
Austrian
slayer,
All set against the foe.
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| Question: |
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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The great differences which exist between the two
general
strikes {i.
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Sorel - Reflections on Violence |
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You see how amber
through
the streams
More gently strokes the sight
With some conceal'd delight
Than when he darts his radiant beams
Into the boundless air;
Where either too much light his worth
Doth all at once impair,
Or set it little forth.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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Darerca's or Moninne's death is
usually
set down as the
6th of The of *2 at this Moninni July.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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"I thank Him now, that I can think
Of those same future days,
Nor from the harmless image shrink
Of what I there might see--
Strange babies on their mothers' knee,
Whose
innocent
soft faces might
From off mine eyelids strike the light,
With looks not meant for me!
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| Question: |
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
|
Illustrated journal, with descriptive
articles
and statistics.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
|
Compare
letter quoted above.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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I
thought
he was in Rome.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
|
I almost gave my life long ago for a thing
That has gone to dust now,
stinging
my eyes--
It is strange how often a heart must be broken
Before the years can make it wise.
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| Question: |
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
|
XLIX
Rinaldo, having broke his rested spear,
So wheels his horse, he seems equipt with wings;
Who,
turning
swiftly with the cavalier,
Amid the closest crowd, impetuous springs.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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vft
nations
have any real
history.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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As the seat of the Customs Board and the
apex of the revenue system of the continent, there were,
from the outset, grave
possibilities
of friction and violence
at Boston, although an executive bent upon conciliation
might have avoided disaster.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
|
The
150
Vaisesikas here invoke the
doctrine
of the Grammarians.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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Orlando è in dubbio a
ripigliar
la strada,
ben che gli sia tutto il paese noto.
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| Question: |
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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Priorof
atthe8thof 2 HisActs Boisil, Melrose, July.
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| Question: |
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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The word drama is of Doric origin, and
according to the usage of the Dorian
language
it meant
“event,” “history,”—both words in a hieratic sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v08 |
|
'
The
weeping
child could not be heard,
The weeping parents wept in vain:
They stripped him to his little shirt,
And bound him in an iron chain,
And burned him in a holy place
Where many had been burned before;
The weeping parents wept in vain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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(5) Otto was
talented
in philology and my father wanted him to
go into the Consular Academy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
|
<3ee^
Sownhani, Bishop of Derry, sent into the world a treatise on the final
j^crseverance of
believers
in their content against sin, and tiieir progress ia
the way of holiness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ussher - A discourse on the religion anciently professed by the Irish |
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Two different
religions
might be seen as two alternative memeplexes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
|
The length of time spent and amount
ofsuffering
increase by factors offour from hell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
|
The same
passages
of Vergil were to help him again
in the tales of Semele (Bk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
|
Not time, as
Aristotle
would have it, but chronology makes distance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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* * * The things that he hath written and published are very many,
accounted
by the gene rality of scholars mere scribbles, and the fancies of conceited and confident, if not enthusiastical, mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
|
"Harvey and DeGraaf dissected animals at most every period after coition
for the
express
purpose of discovering the semen, but were never able
to detect the smallest vestige of it in the uterus in any one
instance.
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| Source: |
Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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’ he said to me,
showing
the
presents.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
|
This so much incensed the old gentleman, that he
immediately
turned him out of doors, friendless and
pennyless,
could.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
|
Does his
murderer
make this his sanctuary?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
For,
speaking
generally,
the unexplained must be absolutely inexplicable,
the inexplicable absolutely unnatural, supernatural,
wonderful,—thus runs the demand in the souls of
## p.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v06 |
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But I too
announce
solid things;
Science, ships, politics, cities, factories, are not nothing--they serve,
They stand for realities--all is as it should be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
But what
pleasure
is there in words?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
|
_A25_: [TO THE
BLESSED
VIRGIN MARY.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
O
setting
sun!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
" ThevolumeofDublinExtracts,preservedJntheRoyal
Doorway of
primitive
Church on Patrick's Island, Skerries.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
|
Note: Hercules, Alcmene's son,
tormented
by the shirt of Nessus immolated himself on a pyre on Mount Oeta, and was deified.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
" On the other hand in Fairbanks'
"version" we read: "It is necessary both to say
and to think that being is; for it is
possible
that
being is, and it is impossible that not being is;
this is what I bid thee ponder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v02 |
|
WHITE'S
Natural
History of Selborne, with Observations on various Parts of Nature, and the Naturalists' Calendar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
|
However, when they had been
running
half an hour or so and were quite
dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out, "The race is over!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
|
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Gardener, by Rabindranath Tagore
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tagore - Creative Unity |
|
rfnisse werden durch
Gedanken
be-
friedigt, und zwar durch echte Gedanken in dem
fru?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
|
When Xenophon was fighting in Asia Minor under Persian leadership, it took
military
strength to disperse enemy soldiers and occupy their lands; but land was not what the victor wanted, nor was victory for its own sake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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Ignatius
of Loyola, Exercitia spiritualia: cum versione literall ex auto graphe Hisp?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
|
Ma-
hamudra
action consists in practicing the conduct of a bo- dhisattva based on the unobstructed strength that arises
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
|
But not in vain had he grown old; more
than the white hairs on his head were the wise
thoughts
in his mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
|
hornbeam: Coke's
exposi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
|
Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
|
This helps to keep the site as
available
as possible for visitors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
|
which they extend to Lucifer himself, and all his imps, that
solve
are on their side ; any thing that is against the church of
England!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
|
Ovid added
plausibly that
Galanthis
laughed at her dismay and so provoked her
further.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
|
He also often
conveyed
a serious lesson in his myths.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Roman Translations |
|
Prager's main thesis was the
remarkable
overlapping of private and public life in his patient's narra- tive inasmuch as this distinction had failed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
|
, 7, "Est
mihi purgatam
crebrò
qui personet aurem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Satires |
|
the
If valley
In the time of hyacinths,
Till beauty like a scented cloth
Cast over,
stifled
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
|
Not wishing to attract attention nor choosing that my appearance should
be made the butt of
mockeries
more or less dissembled, I took a seat at
one side of the tavern door, called for something to drink, which I did
not drink, and when all had forgotten my alien presence, I drew out a
sheet of sketching paper from the portfolio which I carried with me,
sharpened a pencil, and began to look about for a characteristic figure
to copy and preserve as a souvenir of that day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
|
I fancy
these hard-living
parents
would think their struggles to bring up their
large (ten to twenty) families worth while when they see how their
group is strengthening its position.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
|
In other words, we need it
for life and action, not as a
convenient
way to
avoid life and action, or to excuse a selfish life and
a cowardly or base action.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v05 |
|
Now that which, as represent ation, can antecede every exercise of thought (of an object), is
intuition
; and when it contain nothing but relations, it is the
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
|
This inward peace is therefore merely
negative
as regards what can make life pleasant; it is, in fact, only the escaping the danger of sinking in personal worth, after everything else that is valuable has been lost.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
|
Even if you are deceived, your
repulse
is
without danger.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - Art of Love |
|
About hkn seated upon the floor in graceful attitudes,
are four yo\jng maids, his slaves, Phaedria, Thessaia,
Quintia and Celia; they have their lutes and lyres, and
wear
chaplets
of laurel and roses upon their heads.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
|
The sister's
lamentations
in the midst of his own victory, and of such great public rejoicings, raised the indignation of the excited youth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v02 |
|
71, 2 Your
Borachio
Of Spaine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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This report proposed that the states should pass laws
forming themselves into districts, and should
appoint
com-
missioners to estimate the value of their lands; which
estimate, if approved by congress, was to determine the
requisitions to be made.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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32 In a highly regarded
military
history and moral tract in justification of the Ameri- can war, Guenter Lewy describes the purpose ofthe U.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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federal
laws and your state's laws.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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And so in His Name to whom thou has offered thyself, before God I beseech thee that in whatsoever way thou canst thou
restore
to me thy presence, to wit by writing me some word of comfort.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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8 Meanwhile, if Trakl himself adopted any label, he called himself a Christian (if the testimony of Hans
Limbach
is to be believed).
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Days and months pass like a
departing
stream, Time is just a ash from a int stone.
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The young men of
Nanking
have come to see me off;
I that go and you that stay | must each drink his cup.
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Li Po |
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those who use ATM's and touch- screens, become more
available
too.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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