This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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48697 | ***** Tell me what you are thinking of doing, whether you will take action and give me satisfaction or not? |
48697 | I would not endure it either from France or from Spain, do you think I either can or will bear it from you? |
48697 | If he claimed the right to do this, where was the line to be drawn? |
48697 | Will you do it, then do it the sooner the better; it will be best for you; when will you begin? |
8823 | And how about their future husbands? |
8823 | Have they, too, learned their trade? |
8823 | The man replied in the negative, when St. Nicholas rejoined,''What of the three young pigs in your tub? |
8823 | Why should they? |
14971 | What feast would be complete,wrote Hooft to her,"at which you were not present? |
14971 | ), Jan Steen( 1626- 79), Samuel van Hoogstraeten( 1627- 78), Ludolf Backhuizen( 1631- 1709), Jan van der Meer of Delft( 1632-? |
14971 | ), Nicolas Berchem( 1624- 83), Paul Potter( 1625- 54), Jacob Ruysdael( 1625- 81), Meindert Hobbema(? |
14971 | After some tentative efforts, it was resolved to send out an expedition in great force; but the question arose, where best to strike? |
14971 | From an intercepted letter from Louvain, dated July 30, 1829: What does one see? |
14971 | Some thousands of fresh troops were now raised and munitions of war collected, but to whom should the chief command be given? |
14971 | Was there indeed any choice? |
11898 | You come from the Pyrenees; you''ve seen Gavarnie? |
11898 | But why does the king wear so sad an air? |
11898 | His sister Catherine van Schwartz- bourg asked,"Do you trust in Jesus Christ?" |
11898 | How the deuce do their children look so fat and rosy? |
11898 | I had been drinking a bottle of Rhine wine that day, and how was I to afford more? |
11898 | Indeed it had only a franc in it; but"que voulez vous?" |
11898 | Is that then the sky of the south, and was it necessary to come to the happy country of the Béarnais to find such melancholy impressions? |
11898 | She simply asked:"Is the king yet dead?" |
11898 | We were as wet as ducks, but what cared we? |
11898 | What does the gloomy pile of bones buried in the trenches of Waterloo think of this? |
11898 | What is Waterloo-- a victory? |
11898 | What then did you go to the Pyrenees for? |
11898 | Who was Cambronne? |
11898 | Who was this Corsican of six- and- twenty years of age? |
11898 | Who was this new comet of war who possest the effrontery of a planet? |
10583 | Among so many thousand bullets, is there not one to put an end to my miserable life?" |
10583 | And what part had Holland taken in these proceedings? |
10583 | But is all this due to that great moral and social earthquake to which we give the name of the French Revolution? |
10583 | His sister, the countess of Swartzenberg, who now hastened to his side, asked him in German if he did not recommend his soul to God? |
10583 | In the first moment of his vexation he imprudently cried out,"Would ye, then, also bereave_ me_ of my place; I, who am a Spaniard?" |
10583 | It is even said that Maurice asked the wretched mother"why she begged mercy for her son, having refused to do as much for her husband?" |
10583 | On whom, indeed, could they fix but William of Nassau, without the utmost injustice to him, and the deepest injury to themselves? |
10583 | What ties of reciprocal interest bound the different cantons to each other? |
10583 | What were the rights of the nobles in their connection with these freemen? |
10583 | When the news of the victory reached Charles V. in his retreat, the old warrior inquired if Philip was in Paris? |
10583 | cried De Barneveldt,"what then is man?" |
10583 | or did they occupy only those elevated points of land which stood out like islands in the middle of the floods? |
10583 | shouted one of the boors,"why do you trample on my wheat which I have so lately had the trouble of sowing?" |
8412 | And pray, Sir Conjurer, who shall be the robber? |
8412 | And,cries Monsieur d''Artois,"do I not love my sister, too? |
8412 | What are they? |
8412 | Who,says Sir Thomas Browne,"knows the fate of his bones, or how often he is to be buried? |
8412 | As how, indeed, should a god be moved?... |
8412 | But who pulled down the two rows of statues? |
8412 | Did ever the sun shine upon such a king before, in such a palace?--or, rather, did such a king ever shine upon the sun? |
8412 | Did it? |
8412 | For a century and three- quarters have not all the books that speak of Versailles, or Louis Quatorze, told the story? |
8412 | History? |
8412 | Let her heart break: a plague upon her tears and repentance; what right has she to repent? |
8412 | See how long it was of building? |
8412 | Was it not Louis XIV., fulfilling the vow of Louis XIII.? |
8412 | What had he to do, after forty years of reign; after having exhausted everything? |
8412 | What had wealth to do there? |
8412 | Who but men, architects, the artists of our day? |
8412 | Who carved that new and bastard pointed arch in the very center of the middle door? |
8412 | Who dared to insert that clumsy, tasteless, wooden door, carved in the style of Louis XV., side by side with the arabesques of Biscornette? |
8412 | Who hath the oracle of his ashes, or whither they are to be scattered?" |
8412 | Who left those empty niches? |
8412 | Who was stupid enough to fasten that clumsy stone anachronism into the Carlovingian pavement of Hercandus? |
8412 | Why should it crowd the dust of the great? |
8412 | does Monsieur see the black stains on the wall?" |
8412 | says Brantôme,"what of that? |
36110 | Ah,he says,"do you frequent the races at Sheepshead Bay?" |
36110 | Are you a New Yorker? |
36110 | Are you a tramp? |
36110 | Combien? 36110 Have you seen any icebergs?" |
36110 | Met any wrecks? |
36110 | Sir,I say,"you are in my way, will you please move out?" |
36110 | What is your port? |
36110 | What,I exclaim,"no sweets for the sweet girls of Holland?" |
36110 | Will you kindly give me your name? |
36110 | Will you please step aside and allow me to pass? |
36110 | ( How are you? |
36110 | Am I not an American? |
36110 | And what has become of the stranger who relied on my judgment a few moments ago? |
36110 | Are there still lingering''pale gliding ghosts, with fingers dropping gore''?" |
36110 | Combien?" |
36110 | Did he think I was a tender lamb? |
36110 | Do they hope to be inspired by the magic spell of the master''s touch still lingering among the keys? |
36110 | How can I describe the scene that is before me? |
36110 | How can I make them understand? |
36110 | I say to myself:"God made the country, and man made the town, but who on earth has manufactured these monstrous counterpanes, and for what purpose?" |
36110 | I say,"do the lurking spirits of the slain thus make themselves known to the living? |
36110 | One of these is said to have been owned by Christopher Columbus(?). |
36110 | The following are some of the questions asked:"To what line do you belong?" |
36110 | The six weary men all look up in the direction of my finger: they smile, and think it is a good joke, and look at me as though saying:"What next?" |
36110 | Then why not recommend it to your friends? |
36110 | Vice, crime, want, suffering meet our eyes on every side: and the old hopeless cry: Why must these things be? |
36110 | We are always greeted with a pleasant"Goeden morgen,"or"Goeden avond,"or it may be:"Hoe staat het leven?" |
36110 | We rise early this morning, and partake of a good German breakfast; and of what do you suppose a good German breakfast consists? |
36110 | Were you not there last summer?" |
36110 | What better method could be employed in the absence of newspapers? |
36110 | What can be more beautiful than this scene? |
36110 | What has become of my luck? |
36110 | What tongue could tell, or pen impart The riches of its hidden lore?" |
36110 | Where can one find a grander, more solemn atmosphere than within these walls where the spirits and the hands of men have worked for ages? |
42203 | And a little garden- gate, too,cried Wilhelmina;"is n''t it funny?" |
42203 | Are n''t they gorgeous? |
42203 | Are we there already? |
42203 | Can I help you, mother? |
42203 | Children,he said,"how would you like to have a ride in a''trekschuit,''or passenger barge? |
42203 | Do n''t you feel as if you had been up two whole days? |
42203 | Do n''t you have them in America? |
42203 | Father, have n''t you got something for us to eat in your pocket? |
42203 | How can I tell? 42203 How old is Cousin Theodore, mother?" |
42203 | How would you like a raw herring, now, to give you an appetite for your dinner? |
42203 | Is that a milk- cart? |
42203 | Look, Pieter, there are big ships over there in the middle of that green meadow; how ever did they get there? 42203 May I give them some, mother?" |
42203 | Now shall we go to Scheveningen, or are you too tired? |
42203 | Oh,thought Wilhelmina,"why does she spoil her fine cap like that?" |
42203 | That is Delfshaven; you know what happened there once long ago, do you not? |
42203 | That is just like finding a country,said Theodore,"but has n''t it all cost a lot of money?" |
42203 | They are called''klinkers,''and many of our roads are paved this way; but do you see that town just to the left, Theodore? |
42203 | What are those things on the sands over there that look like big mushrooms, Cousin Joost? |
42203 | What is a Kermis? |
42203 | What on earth does that mean? |
42203 | What will you have, Theodore,''poffertjes''or''oliebollen''? |
42203 | Where shall we go to- day? |
42203 | Who is Henry? |
42203 | Why are some of the windmills built on top of the houses? |
42203 | Why are you putting out all the best china and the pretty silver spoons, mother? |
42203 | Why is the little summer- house in the corner of the garden built over the canal? |
42203 | Why was that small looking- glass fastened outside of one of the upper windows? |
42203 | As for Pieter and Wilhelmina, they could talk and think of nothing else, and Wilhelmina went about all the time murmuring to herself,"How do you do?" |
42203 | Ca n''t we go and see the place where they went on board ship, Cousin Joost?" |
42203 | Did it keep them awake? |
42203 | Just as Mevrouw Joost closed up the big"show- room"there came a cry from the road of"Eggs, eggs, who''ll give us eggs?" |
42203 | Papa Stork stood on one leg and cocked his head down to the children as much as to say:"Do n''t you wish that we were living at your house? |
42203 | Pieter managed to say"How do you do? |
42203 | THE KERMIS"ISN''T it nice that Theodore has come in time for the Kermis?" |
42203 | The roof was of bright red tiles, which glistened in the sun, and what do you think was on the highest point of the gable? |
42203 | WHERE THE CHEESES COME FROM 81 List of Illustrations PAGE PIETER AND WILHELMINA_ Frontispiece_"''HOW OLD IS COUSIN THEODORE, MOTHER?'' |
42203 | What do you think of a garden gate without any fence? |
42203 | Where are they?" |
42203 | Why do n''t they use horses?" |
42203 | [ Illustration:"''HOW OLD IS COUSIN THEODORE, MOTHER?'' |
42203 | called out Wilhelmina;"look, Pieter, are n''t they lucky people who live there?" |
27799 | But who is your relative? |
27799 | Does he disturb the repose of families? |
27799 | Is it not possible,I asked, introducing the element of poetry,"that some day Zealand may no longer exist?" |
27799 | What do you think of that? |
27799 | Where are we going? |
27799 | Where does he live? 27799 --Of what master?" |
27799 | Are you familiar with the arms of Zealand: a lion in the act of swimming, above which is written,''_ Luctor et emergo_''?" |
27799 | But, even leaving its origin out of the question, in what other country in the world do things happen as they happen in Zealand? |
27799 | Disturb the repose of families in Holland? |
27799 | First of all,--How was it formed? |
27799 | His sister, Catherine of Schwartzburg, asked,"Dost thou commend thy soul to Jesus Christ?" |
27799 | How did he live? |
27799 | I was often asked, playfully,"What impression does it make on you?" |
27799 | If a teacher of geography had stopped me at some street- corner, before I had decided to visit Holland, and abruptly asked me,"Where is Zealand?" |
27799 | In what other place does the sword of a Spanish captain, Mondragone, serve as a lightning- conductor, as at Wemeldingen? |
27799 | Is it a result of the liberty and equality of classes, making service harder to bear and the servants more independent? |
27799 | Is it an effect of the relaxation of manners and of public discipline, which has made itself felt even in the kitchen? |
27799 | Is this true or false? |
27799 | It seemed to me that now and then I could hear soft voices saying,"Who is that beggar?" |
27799 | Must I tell the truth? |
27799 | One day, in a group of young men at the Hague, I quoted this opinion of Saint Evremont, and bluntly demanded:"Is it true?" |
27799 | One of the first questions put to me when I named my country was,"What about its finances?" |
27799 | Or was it, as others think, terra firma when the Scheldt emptied itself into the Meuse? |
27799 | The expressions,"Is n''t it beautiful?" |
27799 | Those who do not know a country usually ask travellers,"What sort of place is it?" |
27799 | Was it a group of tiny alluvial islands, uninhabited and separated only by canals, which, as some believe, met and formed larger islands? |
27799 | Was this man only a fanatic, as many believed, or a monster of wickedness, as others held, or was he both of these inspired by a boundless ambition? |
27799 | What did this dreamer, this visionary, see in the dark? |
27799 | What did this painter of the air mean to tell us in this eternal conflict of light and shadow? |
27799 | What else can this miller''s son be called? |
27799 | What is the secret that tormented his soul? |
27799 | What strange mania tormented him? |
27799 | Where, as near Domburg, at low water is it possible to draw up ancient temples and statues of unknown deities? |
27799 | Who knows how long he was painting her head? |
27799 | Who knows? |
27799 | Who was this chimerical painter? |
27799 | Why did not this occur? |
27799 | what is his business? |
38595 | But now look here, brother citizen, what have you as a plain and sensible man gained by this assembly and by all this election business? 38595 Did Mr. Verhuell know what this presence meant?" |
38595 | After all, what else is it but some woodpulp and printer''s ink? |
38595 | And just how often had not divine Providence interfered with a timely thaw and had changed the victorious inroad into a disastrous rout? |
38595 | And what did the thinking part of the nation do? |
38595 | And when this pillar of Dutch society began to tremble upon its foundations, which were no longer sound, what was to become of the Dutch banks? |
38595 | And while the people were thus being impoverished, what did the government and what did the French allies do to bring about some improvement? |
38595 | And who, when he compares what was one hundred years ago with what is to- day, can fail to see what a miracle of human energy here has happened? |
38595 | But of what value is all this material? |
38595 | But what good, apart from a little glory, had all their bravery done them? |
38595 | But what? |
38595 | But where is the man with the courage and the tenacity of purpose to undertake this gigantic task? |
38595 | But who was to perform the miracle? |
38595 | But, on the other hand, did they not daily meet and confer with his Excellency the French minister? |
38595 | Despair and despondency, a shrugging of the shoulders and a protest,"What is the use?" |
38595 | Did the triumphant unionist party contemplate violent retribution? |
38595 | Do you hear? |
38595 | For now that the provisional delegates of the new republic were so conveniently together, would they not kindly oblige with a prompt payment? |
38595 | Have you found that your commerce was better protected than before? |
38595 | Have you paid a cent less in taxes? |
38595 | Have your East Indian bonds increased in value? |
38595 | How many had voted in all? |
38595 | How many voters were there in the republic? |
38595 | II Who was the wise man who first said that a little power was a dangerous thing? |
38595 | Meanwhile in The Hague, where, as of old, the Stadholder plays at being a little monarch, what is being done? |
38595 | Nay, Brother of the Acrid Pen, was it not the truth which hurt thee so unexpectedly rather than my scornful irony? |
38595 | People of the Batavian Republic, what say ye?" |
38595 | Perhaps, when all was said and done, was it not better to look the facts boldly in the face and return to the old order of things? |
38595 | Provisional, indeed? |
38595 | Question: Where is the Prince? |
38595 | Remained the all- important question,"Where would they go?" |
38595 | The Revolutionary Committee in Amsterdam, what was it, whence did it come, what did it aspire to do? |
38595 | Then-- where are they? |
38595 | Therefore the nays had it? |
38595 | Was William to be a king or was he merely to continue the office of Stadholder which his fathers had held? |
38595 | Was not Delacroix their sworn friend and did not the French army support him in his affection for the present Batavian Government? |
38595 | Well, count all those who did not vote among the yeas and see how the sum will come out then? |
38595 | Were the promoters of the plan quite sure that the federalists would offer no armed resistance? |
38595 | What matters it? |
38595 | What more can we say of the rule of this well- meaning monarch? |
38595 | What was the position of the latter toward their noble deliverers? |
38595 | What was the use? |
38595 | What was to be the exact position of the Prince, and what form of government must be adopted by the country? |
38595 | What was to become of him when the French should reach The Hague? |
38595 | What would Mr. Carlyle have done with a revolution like that? |
38595 | Who cares? |
38595 | Why does he not equip an army strong enough to resist such British aggressions? |
38595 | Why go on with a minute recital? |
38595 | Why had not his brother taken measures to prevent such a thing? |
38595 | Why insist on living in Utopia? |
38595 | Why keep up an artistic ideal when the people wanted vulgar and cheap prints? |
38595 | Why make sacrifices where nothing was to be gained? |
38595 | Why write good books or good poetry when the people asked for and were contented with the cheaper variety? |
38595 | Why, reader, this appeal to your culinary senses? |
38595 | Would his Majesty kindly peruse the document at his own leisure and make such suggestions as might occur to him? |
38595 | Would the Provisional kindly hurry?" |
38595 | [ Illustration: KING WILLIAM II] What must we say of William II? |
38595 | dishonour our pretty greenbacks with their fine mottoes, and accepted everywhere as the true badges of good revolutionary faith?" |
14951 | ''And how long does the engagement last?'' 14951 ''Well and how about betrothals?'' |
14951 | And Pharaoh''s hosts? |
14951 | And what is the price? |
14951 | Are eggs so scarce then in Holland? |
14951 | But what is this? |
14951 | Is the hroom good, sare? |
14951 | Is the sham good, sare? |
14951 | There but for the grace of God goes England--is that a reasonable utterance? |
14951 | Where then are the Israelites? |
14951 | ''Art thou a bishop?'' |
14951 | ''Art thou a king?'' |
14951 | ''Did you not then send for me?'' |
14951 | ''Why hast thou destroyed the town and_ my_ folk?'' |
14951 | (''Behold the soil you are walking on, The soil, snatched from the waves; Where are more luxurious meadows, Where do you find such cattle?'') |
14951 | A poet landlord and an operatic head waiter, what are they when all is said beside a friendly hotel porter? |
14951 | And industry, that brings from every part Of every thing the fairest and the best, Like the Arabian bird to build thy nest? |
14951 | And why is there no stork? |
14951 | Are we, in our day of decadence, to shrivel thus? |
14951 | Are you louzie? |
14951 | But is it not a heavenly sight To see a woman take delight With song or string her husband dear, When daily work is done, to cheer? |
14951 | But who would have the heart to complain of such small grievances when the love of song is stronger than any other?" |
14951 | By Greece and past ages what need I be tried When The Hague and the present are both on my side? |
14951 | C. Are you well? |
14951 | C. How do you? |
14951 | C. How goes it with you my good friend? |
14951 | C. I am also in health: how doth your father and mother? |
14951 | Could we not help to regain it? |
14951 | D. I am well I thank God; at your service: and you Clemens, how is it with you? |
14951 | Do it well with you?" |
14951 | Given the man and the moment, what can you expect? |
14951 | Had we any complaints? |
14951 | Have we not Bloomsbury? |
14951 | Have you not in to- day at the holy sermon? |
14951 | Have you remembred anything? |
14951 | Here is a specimen scrap of dialogue:-- S. May it please you to give me leave to go out? |
14951 | How did he do it? |
14951 | How should Parma, seeing this obscure, undersized, thin- bearded, runaway clerk before him, expect pith and energy from_ him_? |
14951 | I find that Kasper van Baerle wrote:"What then do we Netherlanders speak? |
14951 | Is Frisia-- Old Frisia-- to lag behind? |
14951 | Johannes Bosboom( Boymans Museum, Rotterdam) The Painter and His Wife(?). |
14951 | M. Are you so very a child, that you ought not to be attentive to heare the word of God? |
14951 | M. Could you not, knave? |
14951 | M. For what cause? |
14951 | M. How is it that you goe so often home? |
14951 | M. I am ready to strike you: what profit have you then gotten? |
14951 | M. In what chapter? |
14951 | M. It may bee so: but goe to, what was the cause that you have remembred nothing? |
14951 | M. Nothing at al? |
14951 | M. So you used to doe: but what did you the rest of the time? |
14951 | M. What compelleth you? |
14951 | M. What did you then? |
14951 | M. What have you then meritted? |
14951 | M. What is that to say? |
14951 | M. What will you then doe, if I shall forgive you? |
14951 | M. What, not one word? |
14951 | M. Whence did he take his text? |
14951 | M. Whither? |
14951 | M. Who are your witnesses? |
14951 | M. Who did preach? |
14951 | M. Why have you not done so? |
14951 | On seeing him, Cornelius de Witt exclaimed in astonishment,''My brother, what do you here?'' |
14951 | One sees the influence of Fabritius, if at all, most strongly in the beautiful early picture at The Hague, in the grave, grand manner, of Diana? |
14951 | S. Master N. M. At what time began he? |
14951 | Scoffingly he asks Jan:''Art thou a king?'' |
14951 | Shall we assume, with great charity, that Walt feared that the word Rotterdam might impair his rhythm? |
14951 | Simple, yet endlessly deep the reply:''Art thou a bishop?'' |
14951 | Still more, why are there no storks in France? |
14951 | That the Dutch die there is no doubt, for a funeral is an almost daily object, and the aanspreker is continually hurrying by; but where are the dead? |
14951 | The first question the lover is asked after knocking at the door, when the parents are supposed to be in bed, is,''Have you any gingerbread?'' |
14951 | The retort, I think, was sound:-- Do_ you_ ask what is Dutch courage? |
14951 | Under such conditions, is it any wonder that Münster became a city of the mad, mad beyond the sane man''s wildest dreams of excess? |
14951 | Was it not a good hotel? |
14951 | Was not the management excellent? |
14951 | What chance has Cupid when there are no groves? |
14951 | When in fury glow her eyes, He keeps silent... is n''t he wise? |
14951 | Who else at that date would have placed the woman''s head against a map almost its own colour? |
14951 | Who, after this, shall have the hardihood to speak evil of the grape? |
14951 | Why are there no heronries in the English public parks? |
14951 | Why did not Rembrandt paint all the pictures? |
14951 | Why stayest thou here? |
14951 | Why try to explain this amazing event? |
14951 | You cut up Betsy-- you salted the pieces-- and you are satisfied with your conduct-- three capital counts-- who are you, my good woman? |
14951 | _ Judge_.--Humph!--ay-- what!--What about the salting? |
14951 | are you in good health? |
14951 | is"Wat is de prijs?" |
14951 | well? |
14951 | what then is man?'' |