Questions

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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603	''For what purpose did you send for the_ soga_ this afternoon?''
603	''Who is that speaking?''
603	''Yes,''he replied;''but what do they represent?''
603	( Is this right?)
603	Above all, is Christ crucified spoken of or hinted at, as in the authenticated writings of the Prophets?
603	At the success of their own machinations?
603	Borrow been about?''
603	But at what?
603	But is it possible for a plan to come within the limits of safe speculation, which has in view the conversion of the Tartar?
603	But pray inform me why the circulation has not been ten times greater?
603	Does it not cut off his own hands?
603	Few copies of the New Testament have been sold; yet what else could be rationally expected in these latter times?
603	How could I sleep?
603	I asked her to breakfast and introduced her to the friar whom she addressed in this manner;_ Anne Domine Reverendissime facis adhuc sacrificium_?
603	I frequently ask:''Is it possible that God, who is good, would sanction the sale of sin?''
603	I have offered him some relief-- what else could I do?
603	I will tell you the ground of dispute; for why should I conceal it?
603	If not, what is their value in comparison with that of other books of Scripture, even could their authenticity be proved?
603	In the name of all that is singular, what does Mr. Rule mean, without the courtesy of asking my permission, by sending this man to me at Madrid?
603	Is it soap?''
603	Is there not such a thing as_ A Royal Ordinance_ to the effect that the Scriptures be seized wherever they are found?
603	May I be permitted to enquire in what part of the sacred writings he found them recommended?
603	P.S.--What do you mean, my dear Sir, by the''_ grano salis_''?
603	Permit me in conclusion to ask you: Have you not to a certain extent been partial in this matter?
603	Quae est mater mea, et qui sunt fratres mei?
603	Shall I wait a little time longer in Madrid; or shall I proceed at once on a journey to Andalusia and other places?
603	They, replied,''What''s that to you?
603	To Gibraltar, or to England?
603	To whom shall I send them?
603	True it is that ordinance is an unlawful one: but what matters that, provided it be put into execution by the authorities civil and military?
603	Uves?''
603	We halted, and cried out''Who goes there?''
603	What availeth that solemn music, that noble chanting, that incense of sweet savour?
603	What could induce him to grasp that two- edged sword?
603	What could induce him to speak of Luther and his works?
603	What could persuade him to speak of the Vulgate?
603	What do you think of my project?
603	What does he, what do his abettors, know of Luther and his writings, or of the ideas which the heretics entertain respecting either?
603	What is the fact?
603	What is their state?
603	What is to be done with the transcript of Puerot''s translation of the Acts of the Apostles, which I made, and which is now in my possession?
603	What is to be done with the volumes when the work shall have passed through the press?
603	What name should I give mine but the true one?
603	What news from China?
603	What should induce me to stay in Spain, as you appear to suppose I intend?
603	What then?
603	What was his motive?
603	What was the cause of this last blow?
603	When shall we hear of an English rector instructing a beggar girl in the language of Cicero?
603	Why not?
603	Will he be willing to write to the Gypsy Committee concerning me?
603	Would that have been a communication suited to the public?
603	Would that have been a welcome communication to the Committee?
603	Yet-- what is their history?
603	_ apkai etchin ni porofiyat_,_ i.e._ the prophet of the Lord of heaven?
603	and is the modern infidel aught but a Sadducee of later date?
603	and,''Supposing certain things are sinful, do you think that God, for the sake of your money, would permit you to perform them?''
31072	And what has all this to do with the Iroquois?
31072	Bruised by the rough mail?
31072	Whose ghost?
31072	Will Horace Walpole''s tongue never stop scandal?
31072	''Is the coach gone?''
31072	''The coach?
31072	''Then she came to the question, which I knew was awaiting me, and asked how I_ spelt_ my name?
31072	--_À la bonne heure_; but wo n''t they come back again, think you?
31072	A reader may say-- by no means in his haste, but after consideration-- not merely"Where is the slightest sign of insanity in these?"
31072	And I pray thee thank thy kind uncle and aunt for her(?)
31072	And must n''t it be acting favourably on the morality of the country?
31072	And what less trite-- except to tritical tastes and intellects-- than this letter?
31072	Are they good letters as such, and of how much goodness?
31072	Besides, can an absent man make any observations upon the characters, customs, and manners of the company?
31072	Book- keeper?''
31072	But I have been sitting half an hour by the poor young lady''s sofa, and talking stuff and nonsense, have n''t I?
31072	But Lockhart?
31072	But when the further questions are raised,"What_ is_ that kind?"
31072	Can anything be more full of pathos?
31072	Could I doubt about protecting the daughter of Corellius?
31072	Dear old b.h., shall I see it again soon?
31072	Did I not tell you to leave off that beecely jimnayshum?
31072	Did you ever see it?
31072	Do not you hear the fountain?
31072	Do not you smell the orange flowers?
31072	Do you remember the servant''s joke in the farce of"High Life Below Stairs"where the cook asks,"Who wrote Shakespeare?"
31072	Do you think, in earnest, I could be satisfied the world should think me a dissembler, full of avarice or ambition?
31072	For what can they be supposed to be about?
31072	For what else would my feeling be, born and bred as I am, and with the not ignoble tombs of my fathers before my eyes?
31072	Has anyone ever tried"breaking up"a letter( such as those to be given hereafter) into a conversation by interlarded comment, questions, etc.?
31072	Have I not been on my knees to her these three weeks, and are n''t the poor old joints full of rheumatism?
31072	Have I not reason then to desire this from you; and may not my friendship have deserved it?
31072	Have they been presented as letters should be presented for reading?
31072	Have you no room at Court?
31072	Have you read the_ New Bath- Guide_?
31072	He cocked his hat, clapped his hand to his sword, asked which of the gentlemen was it that was maligning his family?
31072	How should I know?
31072	Howls, my dear Mrs. Harris?
31072	I do not doubt but I shall be better able to resist his importunity than his tutor was; but what do you think it is that gives him his encouragement?
31072	I feel it, of course, the more deeply, in proportion to the painful disappointment in other quarters.... Am I bitter?
31072	I was told that it was the devil who was bound in that style-- but who can make anything of four saints?
31072	If I were to come there now, I wonder should I be allowed to come and see you in your night- cap-- I wonder even do you wear a night- cap?
31072	In other words,"Is this_ persona_ or_ res_?"
31072	Is Paris more agreeable than London?
31072	Is it in earnest that you say your being there keeps me from the town?
31072	Is there anything thought so indiscreet, or that makes one more contemptible?
31072	Is there going to be always Somebody sick at the brown house?
31072	LADY MARY SIDNEY(?
31072	Myrmidons at your tents, ant- born, or only a mob on the Gillies''Hill?
31072	No, I long to be rid of you, am afraid you will not go soon enough: do not you believe this?
31072	Not my ugebond?"
31072	Now is n''t it a comfort to your old bones to have written such a book, and a comfort to see that fellows are in a humour to take it in?
31072	Pray, tell me how you like her, and what fault you find in my Lady Carlisle''s letter?
31072	She is a nice woman, Madam Fish, besides; and did n''t I abuse you all to her?
31072	Should I attempt to do this, might I not condemn the greater part of our Liturgy,& c.?
31072	Sir,-- Who would be kind to one that reproaches one so cruelly?
31072	Suppose, after being so long virtuous, I take a fancy to cakes and ale, shall your reverence say nay to me?
31072	TO SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Sir,-- You say I abuse you; and Jane says you abuse me when you say you are not melancholy: which is to be believed?
31072	Time fifty- five minutes, falls plentiful, started thirty, and came in eight, and did n''t the old mare go?
31072	Was it his fault that he did not associate with everybody in the house as well as with me?
31072	Was n''t I dead drunk with a whole pint of lemonade I took at White''s?
31072	Well, now about the duel?
31072	What are we thinking of?
31072	What did I say?
31072	What kind of servant do you want?
31072	What shall I say to you about the Ministry?
31072	When do you return?
31072	When is L^d Str:[111] to be married?
31072	Where are you going to?
31072	Who is a-''owling?
31072	Why did I call Lockhart a cad?
31072	Why do you go at all?
31072	Will she really?
31072	Will you have clansmen for your candlesticks, or silver plate?
31072	Would n''t she have been a nice lady''s- maid for your mother and Miss Bally Saxter?
31072	Would you mind handing it to Rudyard Kipling with the enclosed note?
31072	You do n''t believe in such things as ghosts, do you?"
31072	[ 23] It is no business of ours here to embark on the problem,"What was the dram of eale"that ruined all this and more"noble substance"in Cowper?
31072	[ 87]"About"?
31072	_ Quoi!_ May I not have my rattle as well as other elderly babies?
31072	and remarks on a greenhouse?
31072	and should I not stand self- condemned for so doing?
31072	and to ask them also to meditate a little over the two beautiful epitaphs on Epictetus and Zosima, quoted in the last paper of the_ Idler_?
31072	and"Is it the best, or even a very good kind?"
31072	but"How on earth did it happen that the writer of these_ ever_ went mad?"
31072	how do those that live with them always?
31072	stop it, can not you stop it?''
31072	xxii.,"Am I not thine ass?"
12515	''Ah,''said Patty,''''tis the sweetest book!--don''t you think so, Miss Burney?''
12515	''An''t you sorry this sweet book is done?''
12515	''Lord, child,''cried my Lady Temple,''what is the matter?''
12515	''Pray, Miss Fan,''says Mrs. Hamilton,''who wrote it?''
12515	''What can I do for you?''
12515	''What have we to offer him?''
12515	''Write_ to_ thee, or_ for_ the public'', wilt thou not ask?
12515	***** Why do you like Miss Austen so very much?
12515	--Such words would make any stout man tremble, and how then could I be at ease?
12515	A gentleman asked me this morning,''What news from Lisbon?''
12515	Am I indeed to see and be in the midst of all these beautiful things, ladies like lilies not excepted?
12515	Am I not right?
12515	Am I wrong-- or, were you hasty in what you said?
12515	Am not I this day going to dine on venison and drink claret?
12515	And do the men in Italy really leave ladies to walk in those very amiable dry ditches by themselves?
12515	And if the bias, the instinctive bias of their souls run the same way, why may they not be FRIENDS?...
12515	And is not this extraordinary talk for the writer of_ Endymion_, whose mind was like a pack of scattered cards?
12515	And let me ask your friend how it is possible for flowers to be_ reflected_ in water when there are_ waves_?
12515	And should we try to counteract this influence?
12515	And what did I find?
12515	And what do you think he told us?
12515	And works, too!--is_ Childe Harold_ nothing?
12515	And you really think it marvellous that a young woman should find a man of exalted merit to be in love with?
12515	Are not all these better readings?
12515	Are not rakes pretty fellows?
12515	Are you married, hearing that I was dead( for so it has been reported)?
12515	Are you wise?
12515	But I had begun with her, with a view to the future saint in her character; and could she, but by sufferings, shine as she does?
12515	But are you not your father''s own daughter?
12515	But can you thus hold out?
12515	But consider, what must I have been doing all my life, not to have lent great portions of my heart with usury to such scenes?
12515	But hold, why not by fairy art Transform the wretch, into--?
12515	But is not this monstrous?
12515	But the capital faults in my opinion are these-- what punishment was it to Edward I to hear that his grandson would conquer France?
12515	But to be less serious; where will you find a language so pretty become a pretty mouth as the broad Scotch?
12515	But what a pleasing creature is the object of his appetite?
12515	But what am I talking about, when the captain speaks of sailing in a fortnight?
12515	But what could I do?
12515	But what of that?
12515	But your motive for writing to me was your desire of knowing whether my men and women were really existing creatures, or beings of my own imagination?
12515	Can I be wrong in deeming it a notice tame, cold, and insufficient?
12515	Can anything be more full of pathos?
12515	Can expression be more distinct?
12515	Can there be a great artist without poetry?
12515	Can we indeed counteract it?
12515	Can you give me a notion of the cost?
12515	Child of simplicity and virtue, how can you let yourself be so deceived?
12515	Could not you and I contrive to meet this summer?
12515	Could not you take a run here_ alone_?
12515	Could you now come to us for a few days?
12515	DEAR DICKENS, Can you let me have an early copy of the_ American Notes_ so that I may review it in the_ New Monthly_?
12515	DEAR SIR, What can possibly have happened that keeps us two such strangers to each other?
12515	Did I not ask your consent that very night after, and did you not give it?
12515	Did the eyes come away kindly with no Oedipean avulsion?
12515	Did you ever have a very bad cold, with a total irresolution to submit to water- gruel processes?
12515	Did you ever have an obstinate cold,--a six or seven weeks''unintermitting chill and suspension of hope, fear, conscience, and every thing?
12515	Did you ever see so good a joke?...
12515	Did you finish it within the time you intended?
12515	Did you flesh maiden teeth in it?
12515	Did you remember to rub it with butter, and gently dredge it a little, just before the crisis?
12515	Did your Ladyship ever travel with a_ drawing_ companion?
12515	Do I not visit that horrible London, and enter into its abominable dissipations?
12515	Do n''t you think this would be good policy?
12515	Do n''t you want to ask me how I like him?
12515	Do you know your letter brought the tears into my eyes?
12515	Do you not flatter after his manner?
12515	Do you suppose, Cottle, that I have forgotten those true and most essential acts of friendship which you showed me when I stood most in need of them?
12515	Do you wonder I pass so many hours and evenings with her?
12515	For example, one of Defoe''s; for who, in reading his thrilling_ History of the Great Plague_, would not be reconciled to a few little ones?
12515	From this, therefore, I am at liberty, and think of taking the opportunity of this interval to make an excursion, and why not then into Lincolnshire?
12515	Had you no complement of boiled neck of mutton before it, to blunt the edge of delicate desire?
12515	Has George Conway put up a sign yet; or John Finecly left off drinking drams; or Tom Allen got a new wig?
12515	Have I not been at election dinners, and joined the Babel- confusion of a town hall?
12515	Have you no Indian ink, no soot- water, no snuff, no coat of onion, no juice of anything?
12515	He who keeps not right onwards is lost; and if our footsteps slide in clay, how can we do otherwise than fear and tremble?
12515	How can it, when I have no nature?
12515	How comes friend Gay to be so tedious?
12515	How could you imagine that I could be otherwise than pleased-- delighted rather-- with your letter?
12515	How far is it from Leeds to Sheffield?
12515	How shall I tell you the greatest curiosity of the story?
12515	How shall I thank you for the kind manner in which you submit your papers to my correction?
12515	I am very sorry to hear what you say of Keats-- is it_ actually_ true?
12515	I ca n''t cast my eye here, without crying out on those beautiful lines that follow,_ Fair smiles the morn_?
12515	I have missed a letter this Monday, what is the reason?
12515	I knew Zara and Selima( Selima, was it?
12515	I know not whether I should tell you-- yet why should I conceal those trifles, or indeed anything from you?
12515	I submit to your anger, which I have now excited( for have I not questioned the perfection of your darling?
12515	I would know how your own health is, and how much wine you drink in a day?
12515	If it be, what shall we think of criticism or judgement founded upon, and exemplified by, a poem which must have been so inattentively perused?
12515	If you had been angry,--but that''s impossible; how can one quarrel with folks three thousand miles off?
12515	If you told me the world will be at an end to- morrow, I should just say,''Will it?''
12515	If, then, he has no self, and if I am a poet, where is the wonder that I should say I would write no more?
12515	In the meantime why give up the good old trade of drawing?
12515	Is it a fit of humour, that has disposed you to try who can hold out longest without writing?
12515	Is it not odd to consider one''s Cotemporaries in the grave light of Husband and Father?
12515	Is it not so?
12515	Is it not, that those who have the best sense always speak the best, though they may not happen to have the best voices?
12515	Is it really likely to be ready as advertised?
12515	Is it with Chynon, who was transformed from a clown into a lover, and learned to spell by the force of beauty?
12515	Is life, with such limitations, worth trying?
12515	Is n''t there some truth in that?
12515	Is not the vulgarity of these wretched imitations of Lord Byron carried to a pitch of the sublime?
12515	Is the chair empty?
12515	Is the fair, or at least the fat Miss C---- with you still?
12515	Is there a good fire, Patrick?
12515	Is there any news of George?
12515	Is there no getting rid of that iniquitous modus, and requiring the_ butt_ in kind?
12515	Is there no_ lineal descendant_ of Prester John?
12515	Is there not diversity sufficient in society?
12515	Is this accurately transcribed by Lady Beaumont?
12515	It is an age, I own, since I wrote to you; but except politics, what was there to send you?
12515	It is not with my inclination that I fag for the booksellers; but what can I do?
12515	Judge then, my L., can the valley look so well, or the roses and jessamines smell so sweet as heretofore?
12515	MY DEAREST FRIENDS, I have her Majesty''s commands to inquire-- whether you have any of a certain breed of poultry?
12515	Might I not at that very instant have been cogitating on the characters of Saturn and Ops?
12515	Mr. Pitt, who had_ carte blanche_ given him, named every one of them: but what would you think he named himself for?
12515	My beloved Cousin, the first thing that I open my eyes upon in a morning, is it not the bed in which you have laid me?
12515	My dear Brown, what am I to do?
12515	My dear friend, can we dare, after our sins against you-- can we dare_ wish_ for a letter from you sometimes?
12515	No ill, I hope, has happened; and if ill should happen, why should it be concealed from him who loves you?
12515	Now I think of it, what do you mean to be dressed in when we are married?
12515	Or are you fallen in love with some of the amorous heroes of Boccaccio?
12515	Or are you gone into a nunnery?
12515	Or with Lorenzo, the lover of Isabella, whom her three brethren hated( as your brother does me), who was a merchant''s clerk?
12515	Poor_ Aurora_, that you were so more than kind to( oh, how can I think of it?
12515	Pray get them if you can: you have my Sieyes, have you not?
12515	Pray, how are you?...
12515	Shall I retract my opinion altogether, and forswear my own book?
12515	Shall he have no annuity, you no settlement on this side, and I no prospect of getting to you on the other?
12515	Shall no one of us live as we would wish each other to live?
12515	So you and Mr. Foscolo, etc., want me to undertake what you call a''great work''?
12515	So you wish to have some of the sayings of the folks here about_ the book_?
12515	Tell me, have you cured your absence of mind?
12515	There is my lords Sandwich and Halifax, they are Statesmen: Do not you remember them dirty boys playing at cricket?
12515	There now!--Will that do, my Miss Mulso?
12515	Was I born for this end?
12515	Was the crackling the colour of the ripe pomegranate?
12515	Well, when will this letter come from our MD?
12515	Were she to speak her thoughts, I am sure she would ask why such common things, that pass every day, should be printed?
12515	What are you to do among such Ethiopians?
12515	What can I do more at this distance but say that she loves you heartily, and that so do I?
12515	What can be the cause, my dear L., that I never have been able to see the face of this mutual friend, but I feel myself rent to pieces?
12515	What have I said?
12515	What induced you to say that you would have rather written_ Pride and Prejudice_, or_ Tom Jones_, than any of the Waverley Novels?
12515	What is become of you?
12515	What is the constant and just observation as to all the actors upon the stage?
12515	What play makes you laugh very much, and yet is a very wretched comedy?
12515	What shall I say more?
12515	What shall I say to you about the ministry?
12515	What shall I say?
12515	What then does all this mighty art and mystery of speaking in parliament amount to?
12515	What then shall we say?
12515	What then, will you say, too, are you doing?
12515	What think you, might I not preach with Mr. Marshall for a wager?...
12515	What writings has he left?
12515	Whence this love for every place and every country but that in which we reside-- for every occupation but our own?
12515	Whence this romantic turn that all our family are possessed with?
12515	Where are you?
12515	Where can I look for consolation or ease?
12515	Where is Keats now?
12515	Which of them is it?
12515	Who are his executors?
12515	Who could not be unhappy, I wonder?
12515	Who shall then please since none can fix it?
12515	Who that thinks in this train, but must see the world, and its contemptible grandeurs, lessen before him at every thought?
12515	Who would have liked you in the one, or have attended to you in the other?
12515	Why did not you recant at the end of your letter when you got your eleventh?
12515	Why does not he, who shines as brightly as any of these, add his lustre?
12515	Why not your father?
12515	Why should I be troubled?
12515	Why should my heart and flesh cry out?
12515	Why should we be otherwise?
12515	Why then should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?
12515	Why will you not employ Lady Mary as secretary, if it is troublesome to you to write?
12515	Why, truly, I am half of your mind; for how should people find what, in general, they do not seek?
12515	Why, truly, nothing that will bear naming, and yet I am not, I think, idle; for who can, that has so much of past and to come to think on, as I have?
12515	Will you give me leave to say how I would desire to stand in your memory?
12515	Will_ you_ not write again?
12515	Yes, I remember all who were present, and, of all, are not you and I the only survivors?
12515	Yet how can that be?
12515	Yet what shall I say now I''m entered?
12515	Yet who would live to live without thee?
12515	Yet, what can I do?
12515	You have so many''_ divine_''poems, is it nothing to have written a_ human_ one?
12515	You saw Mr. Pope in health, pray is he generally more healthy than when I was among you?
12515	You thought I refused you coldly, did you?
12515	You will now inquire what I do here?
12515	_ Qui le diable est cet homme- là_--said Choiseul t''other day--_ce chevalier Shandy_?
12515	am I fit to be a friend to you, and to the peaceful, mild, pure, and gentle people about you?
12515	and do the duchess''s women admire your wit?
12515	and how are you?
12515	and is Lady M''Kenzie recovering her health?
12515	and is it possible, think you, that we should either of us overlook an opportunity of making such a tiny acknowledgement of your kindness?
12515	and the women here speak it in its highest purity; for instance, teach one of their young ladies to pronounce''Whoar wull I gong?''
12515	and your father, and Richard Burke, who was present( yet again I must ask,--was he not?)
12515	can they be always contradicting?
12515	can you at Amesbury write domestic libels to divert the family and neighbouring squires for five miles round?
12515	can you attend to trifles?
12515	can you play with him at backgammon?
12515	can you set the footmen a- laughing as they wait at dinner?
12515	does this compensate for the absence of every fine feeling-- of every gentle and delicate sentiment?
12515	have the farmers found out that you can not distinguish rye from barley, or an oak from a crab- tree?
12515	if they_ will_ be so disagreeable and tiresome as to be all of one mind, how is it to be helped?
12515	in what esteem are you with the vicar of the parish?
12515	is there not from six to eleven p.m. six days in the week, and is there not all Sunday?
12515	or Fatima?)
12515	or is so common an event as Edward III being deserted on his death- bed, worthy of being made part of a curse that was to avenge a nation?
12515	or venture so far on horseback, without apprehending a stumble at every step?
12515	or, to mention a stronger attraction, why not to dear Mr. Langton?
12515	tell me that, huzzies base, were we even then, were we, sirrah?
12515	this desire of fortune, and yet this eagerness to dissipate?
12515	what avails it?
12515	where am I to get cake?''