Blest with a taste exact, yet unconfin'd;
A
knowledge
both of books and human kind: 640
Gen'rous converse; a soul exempt from pride;
And love to praise, with reason on his side?
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Alexander Pope |
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said: The art of war is of vital
importance
to the State.
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The-Art-of-War |
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Thou on my head in early youth didst smile:
And, though
rebellious
and perverse meanwhile,
Thou hast not left me, oft as I left thee:
On to the close, O Lord, abide with me!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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[1202] are thus
enumerated
by Dr.
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Hesiod |
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It was a long journey, and she saw many places and people, and was now
hidden and now seen, like the moon, till she calve one day into a forest
near the walls of Paris, where she beheld a youth lying wounded on the
grass, between two
companions
that were dead.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Sweet Philomel, the bird
That hath the
heavenly
throat,
Doth now alas!
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William Browne |
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Therefore Cotta drew back his army from
attacking
the walls, and camped a short distance away.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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He also expanded Lombardy's relations with
surrounding
kings and courts.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for
generations
on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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All
education
must be under public control, and education must be
universal and compulsory.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently
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almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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Memor,
distinguished
by the chaplet of Jove's oak, the glory of the Roman stage, breathes here, restored by the pencil of Apelles.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's
information
and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Tully - Offices |
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—Our social order will
slowly melt away, as all former orders have done,
as soon as the suns of new
opinions
have shone
upon mankind with a new glow.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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And every day by daybreak--rather early
For Juan, who was somewhat fond of rest--
She came into the cave, but it was merely
To see her bird reposing in his nest;
And she would softly stir his locks so curly,
Without
disturbing
her yet slumbering guest,
Breathing all gently o'er his cheek and mouth,
As o'er a bed of roses the sweet south.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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Mentre noi
corravam
la morta gora,
dinanzi mi si fece un pien di fango,
e disse: <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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'Il
Morgante
Maggiore' treats of the time when Roland, enraged
by the relations which have sprung up between Charlemagne and
Gano di Maganza, leaves the court of the Emperor, to which he is
bound as a paladin, and journeys in foreign lands.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Was ist schön an einem Mann,
welches Gott nicht dir
beschied!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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He himself was aware of the change in his own condition,
though he did not really
understand
it.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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3 I must, however, describe the cause of a delay so fortunate and an instance of unselfishness which should both receive special mention in the public records and be admired by future
generations
of the human race, in order that those who covet kingdoms may learn not to seize power but to merit it.
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Historia Augusta |
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I
understand
that a full explanation of the origins of the reform movements in China and Russia is a good deal more complicated than this simple formula would suggest.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
|
They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Nought is there for man too high;
Our impious folly e'en would climb the sky,
Braves the dweller on the steep,
Nor lets the bolts of heavenly
vengeance
sleep.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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At the same time she drew herself up,
throwing
away her
bundle.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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~
Understand
all phenomena are like this.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in
mine, is the
momentous
issue of civil war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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The disillusioned Left of earlier times and the New Left of the present and of the recent past have pointed out more emphatically than any bourgeois historian ever has that the term "socialistic" can be applied to the governments of the Soviet Union, its allies, and the People's
Republic
of China only in quotation marks and only as a shorthand term of convenience.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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There are many
editions
of his works issued at
different times and at different places, such as Wilno,
Moscow, Warsaw, St.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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(13)
[Note 13: Refers to Dictionary of the Academy, compiled during the
reign of Catherine II under the
supervision
of Lomonossoff.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The Muslims tried to persuade the Bri-
tish Government to show
leniency
towards Turkey but they got a
flat refusal.
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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Where is that
standard
which Pelagio bore,
When Cava's traitor-sire first called the band
That dyed thy mountain-streams with Gothic gore?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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They are about to add a leaf's
thickness
to the depth of the soil.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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n de
nuestros
suen?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
|
'
The group ends with a poem called Die Garten schliessen;
and the next group, Pilgerfahrten, is
prepared
for by the last
line: 'Pilger mit der hand am stabe'.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Studies |
|
What _are_ these
churches?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a
possible
attack at several different points; and his forces being thus distributed in many directions, the numbers we shall have to face at any given point will be proportionately few.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
The-Art-of-War |
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--and my good
tailoress!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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The following are the chief contemporary
references
to anti-Martinist plays :
Martin Junior, sig.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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s whence he was removed to Christ-church, in
Oxford, where he soon
distinguished
himself by his uncommon- attainments in literature.
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| Question: |
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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If we
practised
this and exercised ourselves in it daily from morning to night, something indeed would be done.
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| Question: |
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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However, we have
in this
neighbourhood
an old man retired from Court who is the most
learned and most communicative person in the kingdom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Candide by Voltaire |
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the silver tongue,
Cold
February
loved, is dry:
Plenty corrupts the melody
That made thee famous once, when young:
And in the sultry garden-squares, [3]
Now thy flute-notes are changed to coarse,
I hear thee not at all, [4] or hoarse
As when a hawker hawks his wares.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Your IP address has been
automatically
blocked from the address you tried to visit at www.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoesvky - The Devils |
|
Lady Marmela
Shortbread
will walk in for supper with her marchpane switch on, her necklace of almonds and her poirette Sundae dress with bracelets of honey
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
|
,
even the best Latin poets, such as Catullus and Horace, experience some diffi-
culty in always
providing
one required dactyl, and therefore they occasionally
admit without metrical ambiguity in such a foot exceptional or vulgar short-
enings and even short vovels (without m) in hiatus, as Lucilius, ix, 243 Bahr.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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She dies, unless a champion, good and true,
Arm on her side before a month expire;
And her against the accuser base maintain
Unmeriting
such death, and free from stain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Hogarth, The
Analysis
of Beauty, pp.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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The scop'
composed
his verses and
"published" them himself; most probably he was a great
plagiarist, a forerunner of later musicians whose "adoption” of
the labours of their predecessors is pardoned for the sake of the
improvements made on the original material.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
|
The birds around me hopp'd and play'd,
Their
thoughts
I cannot measure--
But the least motion which they made
It seem'd a thrill of pleasure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Making
provision
for the mice in their holes;
Making to live the birds in every tree,
Hail to thee, maker of all these!
| Guess: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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Just as
we finished, Sir
Bedivere
happened in, and I saw that as like as
not I hadn't chosen the most convenient outfit for a long trip.
| Guess: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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"Well," said Napoleon,
somewhat
impatiently, "at least I am sure that
she is happy.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
|
XXIII
I loved thee, Atthis, in the long ago,
When the great
oleanders
were in flower
In the broad herded meadows full of sun.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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clothmg
and produced a cornucopIa from "La Tour"
or as
Augustme
saId, or as the Pope wrote to AugustIne
"eaSIer to convert after you feed 'em" but tlus was before St Peter's
m move toward a carrozza from the mternal horrors (mosaIC)
en route to Santa Sabma
& San Domemco
where the spIrIt IS clear In the stone as agaInst
Fl1th of the Hyksos, butchers of lesser cattle Narrow alabaster m sunlIght
In Classe, m San Domemco
(Yes, my OndIne, It IS SO god-damned dry on these rocks)
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Return, splendor of the
hillsides!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
15] / Italian
translation
in: Storiagrafia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
|
In consequence of its
constitution
the policy of this confederacy was not aggressive like the Roman, but was limited to the defence of its own bounds; only where the state forms a unity is power so concentrated and passion so strong, that the ex tension of territory can be systematically pursued.
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| Question: |
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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We have here in
miniature, and displayed at one view, a system analogous to that of the
planets about the sun, of which, from the circumstance of our being
involved in it, and unfavorably
situated
for seeing it otherwise than
in detail, we are incapacitated from forming a general idea, but by
slow and progressive efforts of reason.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bacon |
|
Don't tell me, Leon of the fold, that you are not a
loanshark!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Finnegans |
|
"
So much for the
detractors
from Wordsworth's merits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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But can one
perceive
this intent?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
|
418 References
Mann, Michael,
Giovanni
Arrighi, Jason W.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
|
He said: One must
recognize
the age of one's father and mother both as a measure of good and of anxiety.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
|
Nỗi niềm
tưởng
đến mà đau,
110.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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Consequently on the 2nd of October, Antonius was brought forward at a public meeting by Cannutius, and though it is true he left the platform in sore disgrace, yet he
referred
to the saviours of the country in terms that should have been applied to traitors.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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Felon pagans are
gathered
to their shame;
I pledge you now, to death they're doomed to-day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
, irruptive or ephemeral status of the moments of God's incarnation and
presence
among humans, into a permanent frame condition of life within Christian existence and culture.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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The war is des- ignated "penisolate," which suggests "late, or recent war of the penis," a designation not
inappropriate
to the gest of a Tristram.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
|
WILL HITLER SAVE
DEMOCRACY?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
|
16 Therefore, opposing reason to desire, he poured out the drink as an
offering
to God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Roman Translations |
|
I accepted the
heritage
of
Julian.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
|
, objectively
portrayed
for an individual) than ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
|
n de la
individualidad
absoluta, careceri?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
|
bene successit; nam ficta
adultera
turba
Illudens aliis, luditur arte pari.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
|
The Lords were induced to make representations on
the subject to the King; who justified the
arrangement
on the
score of his duty to provide for the safety of the ammunition
stored in the Tower, but in view of the popular agitation did
not insist on its being carried out.
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Alsoshehas come early, for the dew has not merely
whitened
the stairs, but
has soaked her stockings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
|
^
Emergence
of a psychopathology of idiocy and mental retardation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
|
Bind its free
waving boughs to a wall, force foreign branches on it by
ingrafting, and it will feel itself
compelled
to one course of
action; its branches will grow, but not in the direction
they would have taken if left to themselves; it will produce
fruits, but not those which belong to its original nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
|
Through-
out Latin literature, this is the
perpetual
puzzle:- Why are we
free and they slaves, we prætors and they barbers?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
|
That
happened
in my youth, though.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
|
In reaction, Eastern European voters have been returning Communists to office--to preside over the ruin and
wreckage
of broken nations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
|
Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sallust - Catiline |
|
Here are no funeral games, nor is there any
long
description
of a shield.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
|
" Very
possibly
; but wherefore these inquiries ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v04 |
|
The President
travelled
to Moscow and warned of sanctions’ toll as Bank of Cyprus added to its 55 percent NPL ratio with Russia and Ukraine impairments.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kleiman International |
|
”
O could you but hear it, at
midnight
my laugh:
My hour is striking; come step in my trap;
Now into my net stream the fishes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
|
is the key
question
that opens the way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
|
Pete glanced
backward
from the door, and a cloak that was
hanging on the inside of it brushed his face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
|
Chillip was
fluttered
again, by the extreme severity of my aunt's
manner; so he made her a little bow and gave her a little smile, to
mollify her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickens - David Copperfield |
|
Edgerton,TheHeritageof Giotto's Geometry: Art and Science on the Eve of
the
Scientific
Revolution, 2nd ed.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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There came one who
understood
not these things.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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" Therefore it
is disgraceful to beg: and consequently this is
unbecoming
to
religious.
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Summa Theologica |
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That he was only too cognitively conatively cogitabundantly sure of it because, living, loving, breathing and
sleeping
morphomelosophopancreates, as he most significantly did, whenever he thought he heard he saw he felt he made a bell clipperclipperclipperclipper.
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Finnegans |
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"117 Here, as on
occasion
with Cissie Sinclair, the seductions of verbal play seem to take the place- as it were, synechdochally- of seduction more palpable.
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Samuel Beckett |
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The differencebe-
tweenthetwosetsofdevelopmentswas
hardlyperceptiblefora longtime, sinceitwasconcealedbya thirdtendencywhichseemedtosuggestthatthe Germanuniversitysystemwas merelybecominglike the Americanone.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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Now laverocks wake the merry morn
Aloft on dewy wing;
The merle, in his
noontide
bow'r,
Makes woodland echoes ring;
The mavis wild wi' mony a note,
Sings drowsy day to rest:
In love and freedom they rejoice,
Wi' care nor thrall opprest.
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burns |
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" The Tree, having heard the subject of their dispute, gave his opinion in the following words : " Among men, benefits are never requited but with
ungrateful
actions.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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His sinking state was not
unobserved
by his friends, and Syme and
M'Murdo united with Dr.
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Robert Burns |
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But I took it--and in an hour--oh,
heavens!
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Dashwood; "these
objections
are
nonsensical.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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