“Cretans
are ever liars.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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He smiled on those bold Romans A smile serene and high ;
He eyed the
flinching
Tuscans, And scorn was in his eye.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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'
`By god,' quod he, `I hoppe alwey
bihinde!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The
downfall
of Napoleon ended Wincenty Kra-
sinski's career in the Polish legions.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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—The localities along the Blackwater, on
the borders of Tyrone and Armagh, are amongst the most famous
battle-fields in Ireland, and several engagements are mentioned in
the Annals which took place near that river in the war of O'Neill
against Elizabeth, amongst others the battle of Drumfliuch, near
Bemburb, fought in 1597, and
described
at p.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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It is
probably
the second notion that takes us along the right path.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any
particular state visit www.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Inquire not,
Leuconoe
(it is not fitting you should know), how long a
term of life the gods have granted to you or to me: neither consult the
Chaldean calculations.
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Horace - Works |
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But a mortal man noticed him as he drove the
wide-browed kine
straight
towards Pylos.
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Hesiod |
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Everything
that is
about to happen is known beforehand; who then
cares to wait for it actually to happen ?
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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I love sharp Satyr, from obsceneness free;
Not Impudence, that
Preaches
Modesty:
Our English, who in Malice never fail,
Hence, in Lampoons and Libels, learnt to Rail;
Pleasant Detraction, that by Singing goes
From mouth to mouth, and as it marches grows!
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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General Terms of Use and
Redistributing
Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic works
1.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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THE
HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND
visit by Russian warships was a great psychological stim-
ulus to the North; and the U.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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That
gentleman's character is such, as will make him peculiarly
useful at the head of your affairs, in a situation so alarming
and
interesting
as that which you now experience.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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The
style of the Word is such that
holiness
is in every sentence, and
in every word; yes, in some places in the very letters: hence the
Word conjoins man with the Lord, and opens heaven.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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My life eternal is all that
misfortunes
have
left me to give you.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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And yet what I say is true, although a thing of which
it is hard for me to
persuade
you.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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Orlando I pursue,
That bore Cymosco's thunder-bolt away;
And this had in the deepest bottom drowned,
That never more the
mischief
might be found.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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17
4 Italy 1918: Falsifications of the results of war,
politics
in a big way
At this point I do not wish to restrict my focus to the post-war periods of the 20th century.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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"116 He hired Theodora Bosanquet, a philosopher's daughter who had worked for the offices of
Whitehall
on the Report of the Royal Commission on Coast Erosion and who learned to type for James's sake.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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99
THE PLANET OF THE PIV\CTISING
step lS
movement
psychology
into the religion fiction of Scientology.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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See "Trias Thaumaturga," Quarta
Appendix
ad Acta S.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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and sing me all your
memories!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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100, the intervening
years will have given Matho ample time to
retrieve
his fortune by his
infamous trade of informing, and reappear as the luxurious character
described Sat.
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Satires |
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CII
In Aethiopia's realm Senapus reigns,
Whose sceptre is the cross; of cities brave,
Of men, of gold possest, and broad domains,
Which the Red Sea's
extremest
waters lave.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The way I read a letter 's this:
'T is first I lock the door,
And push it with my fingers next,
For
transport
it be sure.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
inquired
the priest,
fixing his eyes on Thord.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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He focuses on the
physiological
symptoms of anxiety, becomes even more anxious, then seeks medical treatment.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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Was · Due Desert' Walter
Devereux?
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
|
Collins, but
likewise
by Lady Catherine and her daughter, to
whom I have related the affair.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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_Res gloriosa_ is an
_illustrious
thing_;
but _vir gloriosus_ is _commonly_ a _braggart_, as in _miles gloriosus_.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Are they perhaps those happy few who let us know that they are graciously available - but that their
availability
should not be taken advantage of?
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino
labore fessi uenimus larem ad nostrum,
desideratoque
acquiescimus
lecto.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Then the Bhagavat Maitreya, for his sake (tarn uddisya)
explained
the Prajndpdramita and composed the treatise which is called the Abhisama- ydlamkdrakdrikd.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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This was the first debate on any weighty subject in which
Roebuck and I had been on
opposite
sides.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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MID-FLIGHT
We rush, a black throng,
Straight
upon darkness:
Motes scattered
By the arc's rays.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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This moorland must have
rendered
access between both places, a matter of some difficulty to our saint.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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Translated
by Anthony Munday.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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" [125]
Of course the use of
contraceptives
is the very negation of self-control.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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Were I from
Dunsinane
away, and cleere,
Profit againe should hardly draw me heere.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Traditionally, the spirit has a precarious
relationship
with movement, except that it supposedly blows where it wants (which may be understood as a complement to those who are inspired and which should in addition explain that it is not our fault if there is no wind in our spirit).
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk |
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They now honoured and idealised things with as much falsity as they had
previously
slandered them.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Was there any idea at
all
connected
with it?
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| Source: |
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
The
Chronicle
of the Pathan Kings of Delhi, Trübner and Co.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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'And now,
Hidalgo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bryon - Don Juan |
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This collection has a large
proportion
of the tales widely known
among all the Slavs, such as "The three golden hairs," "Long, Round
and Sharp.
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| Source: |
Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
|
What was it
ultimately?
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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Before the huge high door of the Irish house of
parliament
a flock of
pigeons flew.
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| Source: |
James Joyce - Ulysses |
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The use of
'far' as an adjective is not uncommon: 'Pulling far history nearer,'
Crashaw; 'His own far blood,' Tennyson; 'Far travellers may lie by
authority,' Gataker (1625), are some
examples
quoted in the O.
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| Source: |
Donne - 2 |
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Philosophy
will clip an Angel's wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine--
Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made
The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Recently my
incoming
mail has registered a sharp rise in the normal load of 'chaos theory', 'complexity theory', 'non-linear criticality' and similar phrases.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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This dashing, witty profligate,
with
generous
impulses and no conscience, was a true product of
the court of Louis XIV.
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Now I quite agree that mankind, thus provided,
would live and act according to knowledge, for wisdom would watch
and prevent
ignorance
from intruding on us.
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| Source: |
Plato - Apology, Charity |
|
He was, besides, the human lot to fill,
Of
pleasure
and of pain:--of good and ill;
In fact, whate'er for mortals was designed,
With his legation was to be combined.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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In truth, we ask nothing but two
portions
of flour, one for each of us, for our families.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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They shall establish Nomentum and Gabii and Fidena
city, they the
Collatine
hill-fortress, Pometii and the Fort of Inuus,
Bola and Cora: these shall be names that are now nameless lands.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I do not
so greatly blame, therefore, the writers who have
committed
so
many sins of omission concerning her, and made her all light,
color, canals, and palaces.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
|
Song Written at Sea
Charles
Sackville
(Earl of Dorset).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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Meanwhile the respect of the
public towards Genji had now
returned
to its former state, and he
himself had become a distinguished personage in the capital.
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| Source: |
Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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'Prisoned on watery shore,
Starry
jealousy
does keep my den
Cold and hoar;
Weeping o'er,
I hear the father of the ancient men.
| 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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"
His attitude toward dream study was, in other words, that of a
statistician who does not know, and has no means of foreseeing, what
conclusions will be forced on him by the information he is gathering,
but who is fully prepared to accept those
unavoidable
conclusions.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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2 Then they kept on bewailing the chances that had been let slip,
especially
Cassius, and they complained bitterly of Decimus [Brutus].
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| Source: |
Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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Thus, in the additions to Usuard's Martyrology, by Hermann Greven ;49 in the Florarius Manuscript 5° in John Molan 51 and in Peter
Canisius
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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And you saw the
old housekeeper, I
suppose?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
|
Homer
and Virgil have been highly praised for their
judgment
in the choice of
subjects which interested their countrymen, and Statius has been as
severely condemned for his uninteresting choice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Then only might'st thou feel a just regret,
Hadst thou
withheld
thy love or hid thy light
In selfish forethought of neglect and slight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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In its searching
psychologic analysis it stands quite apart from the more or less flac-
cid
production
of its day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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Hence there is a driving
towards truth in all books on matters where the writer, though
exceptionally gifted is
normally
constituted, and has no private axe to
grind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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King Conrad once,
historians
say,
Fell out with this good city;
## p.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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The fame of Hercules and Bacchus has
immortalized
Thebes ; when Latona gave birth to Apollo in Delos that island stayed its errant course ; it is Crete's boast that over its fields the infant Thunderer crawled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
|
Psychoanalysis remained for the most part silent when it came to that form of rage that springs from the
striving
for success, prestige, self-respect, and their backlashes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Rage |
|
—THE WAY OF THE
CREATING
ONE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
|
Unicus ille quidem semper
patronus
'
egentum,
Vestibus hos, lllos adjuvat aere, cibo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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But some man may object, that Peter speaketh
otherwise
of the last day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
|
When American News of importance arrives off Liverpool —a President's Message, for example —a chase often takes place ; the English Channel, too, has
frequently
been the seat of rival operations, from the days when the late Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
|
"Even these little pieces," he said, "are most
valuable
jewels.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
|
If the
Russians
in Petersburg and Mos-
cow build a few Bulgarian schools for their kins-
men and Orthodox Believers, where is the wrong
in it?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
|
Tidings of the
impossible
reality reach the symbolic, via media transposition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
|
Mingle male and female energies,
and mix upper and lower
energies
in the proper manner.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
|
Four pound a week m
Covent Garden and ’is wife doing a starry m the bloody Square'
Husband!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
|
Now he would be wondering
whether the Christianity of the future would consist of mysticism
and charity, and possibly the Eucharist in its
primitive
form as
the outward bond’; now he would look longingly back to the
church of his baptism; and yet again give a last loyalty to the
church of his adoption.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
|
We are armed with faith in those things which we see not,
and we
overthrow
enemies whom we see not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
|
Finally, Marcus nds in the Theaetetus ( 1 74d-e) a
description
of the di cult situation ofa king, bereft ofthe leisure he needs to think and to philoso phize, like a shepherd shut up with his ock "in a pasture in the midst of the mountains" (X, 23).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
|
In these circum-
stances war with the French broke out in 1778 and was followed by
the
immediate
reduction of Pondichery by Munro.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
|
Far thee well Lord,
I would not be the
Villaine
that thou think'st,
For the whole Space that's in the Tyrants Graspe,
And the rich East to boot
Mal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
mmt ihr blondes Haar,
Auch
schreibt
ein ferner Freund dir einen Brief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - Dichtungen |
|
It is not only the case that it quasi-universally addresses "all" without
discriminating
on the basis of nations and social classes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
|
This is because when we traverse the
ordinary
Mahayana path, then for many endless kalpas we are taking birth again and again and generating virtue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
|
what herb Medea brewed
Will bring the
unexultant
peace of essence not subdued?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Engraved as their expression is history, and
engraved
as their form is historical continuity, which integrates the landscapes dynamically as in artworks.
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Wherever
a young man roams
The Fates in ambush lie
6 What good that young men have
Did you lack in your life?
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And
blossoms
fall upon an open sea.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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A remonstrance with Alphenus, who had gained
and betrayed the confidence and
affection
of Catul-
lus.
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There was no
question
of his resisting any.
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The Soviet Union actually possesses armed forces far in excess of those
necessary
to defend its national territory.
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However, I was well enough to join the able-bodied
passengers, one of whom
observed
not inaptly, that Momus might have
discovered an easier way to see a man's inside, than by placing a
window in his breast.
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This dashing, witty profligate,
with
generous
impulses and no conscience, was a true product of
the court of Louis XIV.
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The Poet's treatment on Paris on earth, whom he has made his only contemptible prince or warrior, is in strict keeping with his treatment of
Aphrodite
Immortals.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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