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.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 9105 | Can age itself forget that you are now in the last act of life? 9105 But why do we need her instruction? |
| 9105 | Thousands of people with good qualities are displeasing; thousands pleasing with far less abilities, and why? |
| 9105 | Thus Horace Walpole being given,"brook, why, crook, I,"returned the burlesque verse--"I sits with my toes in a Brook, And if any one axes me Why? |
| 36821 | Who cares for the miller now? |
| 36821 | You see the ways the fisherman doth takeTo catch the fish; what engines doth he make? |
| 36821 | ARE there any fish in the river to which you are going? |
| 36821 | If you have had bad sport, and say to him,"Which way shall we go now?" |
| 36821 | no sport? |
| 10715 | Again, why is it that in youth we can see no end to the years that seem to lie before us? |
| 10715 | Are not almost all wars ultimately undertaken for purposes of plunder? |
| 10715 | But still, had Adam no father or mother? |
| 10715 | But why is it that to an old man his past life appears so short? |
| 10715 | He alone knows the right time; but what use is that to him? |
| 10715 | Is it not a fact that we always feel a marked improvement in our spirits when we begin to get over a period of anxiety? |
| 10715 | What do they want with people who can not rise to a higher level, and for whom nothing remains but to drag others down to theirs? |
| 10715 | thought I, what am I to do? |
| 10741 | And why? |
| 10741 | In Chapter XIV, he says,_ What shall a wise man do, if he is given a blow? |
| 10741 | Lichtenberg asks:_ When a head and a book come into collision, and one sounds hollow, is it always the book_? |
| 10741 | Sollten Solche je warden Freunde Denen das Wesen, wie du bist, I m stillen ein ewiger Vorwurf ist_? |
| 10741 | What more do you want? |
| 10741 | [ 3] On another occasion, when he was asked,_ Has not that fellow abused and insulted you? |
| 10741 | _ Do you think_, said Socrates,_ that if an ass happened to kick me, I should resent it_? |
| 10741 | _ Yes_, you say,_ but these men were philosophers_.--And you are fools, eh? |
| 10741 | and is it not amongst the rich, the upper classes, that we find faces full of ill- humor and vexation? |
| 16065 | What for? |
| 16065 | Who stole the land? |
| 16065 | ***** Irate Mother- in- law( to son- in- law about to marry second wife),--"Is this the way you treat my daughter, lying in the dark grave?" |
| 16065 | ***** Is a new soul created at every birth, or are we merely corpses warmed over? |
| 16065 | ***** Is the African heathen more precious than a sick child in a London garret? |
| 16065 | ***** The private ownership of land is crystalized in the question"Is the unborn child an heir or a bastard?" |
| 16065 | ***** What becomes of the characters who play an important part in fiction; the strong, brave, true fiction- people, whom we love as we read? |
| 16065 | ***** Whence comes eternal truths? |
| 16065 | ***** Why came we here? |
| 16065 | ***** Why is it that down hill is always greased? |
| 16065 | But he, in his heart, was saying--"What strange tree is this? |
| 16065 | But is that life? |
| 16065 | By blind chance or design? |
| 16065 | Do you see the inevitable result? |
| 16065 | Is there no place for them in the world peopled by shadows? |
| 16065 | What does the other fellow do? |
| 16065 | What purpose? |
| 16065 | Which? |
| 16065 | Why is this? |
| 16065 | You did n''t do it? |
| 30508 | ), his body is gross(? |
| 30508 | And what of the other writers of that time, whose works and whose very names are entirely swept away? |
| 30508 | Be not lavish of favours; it leadeth to servility(? |
| 30508 | Give(?) |
| 30508 | His heart is wretched(? |
| 30508 | His knowledge shall be his guide(?) |
| 30508 | If his desires be not gratified, he regardeth(?) |
| 30508 | If thou desire that thine actions may be good, save thyself from all malice, and beware of the quality of covetousness, which is a grievous inner(?) |
| 30508 | If thou have entered as an expert, speak with exact(?) |
| 30508 | If thou sit with a glutton, eat with him, then depart(?). |
| 30508 | Is it the custom of women to gather together assailants? |
| 30508 | Know well thy merchants; for when thine affairs are in evil case, thy good repute among thy friends is a channel(?) |
| 30508 | My heart began to wander(?). |
| 30508 | Overstepping is by the covetous man; but degradations(?) |
| 30508 | The nose is stopped, and he breatheth not for weakness(? |
| 30508 | Will the books of our time last one- tenth so long? |
| 30508 | Withdraw not thyself from him, neither interrupt(?) |
| 30508 | [ 17] Literally,"It is that which preventeth the heart from advancing(?)" |
| 30508 | are assassins reared within my palace? |
| 30508 | was the opening done by cutting through the ground? |
| 30508 | what of their deeds? |
| 30508 | where are their abodes? |
| 20718 | And tell me, Sage, what became of the ear? |
| 20718 | And the man? |
| 20718 | And what was the good of all that? |
| 20718 | And what will be the end? |
| 20718 | And what will the Cockatoo do? |
| 20718 | But was it worth while to sell this rare thing for a very ordinary one? |
| 20718 | But what will be the very end? |
| 20718 | But who_ really_ benefited by all this? |
| 20718 | It means, first of all,said the Sage,"that the woman is a fool, as what is the value of a Topaz in comparison with a Diamond or a Ruby? |
| 20718 | More so than if it returned your caresses? |
| 20718 | So you have come back? |
| 20718 | Then what will happen now? |
| 20718 | Then what_ could_ be the pleasure of it all? |
| 20718 | Upon an insensible object? |
| 20718 | Well? |
| 20718 | Well? |
| 20718 | Were you not content with my last utterances? |
| 20718 | What do you want now? |
| 20718 | What next? |
| 20718 | Why do you come here demanding my advice if you moralize yourself? 20718 You asked me what was life-- and why the fruit tasted bitter in the mouth? |
| 20718 | *****"More questions?" |
| 20718 | And what should the woman do?" |
| 20718 | And why does the fruit taste bitter in the mouth?" |
| 20718 | Now tell me, Sage, should the woman go on to the end and find perhaps a stone? |
| 20718 | Now tell me, Sage, which was right-- the man or the Tiger?" |
| 20718 | Or should she try to rewind the silk? |
| 20718 | S. C._ THE DAMSEL AND THE SAGE And the Damsel said to the Sage:"Now, what is life? |
| 20718 | Surely that is waste of time?" |
| 20718 | Tell me, Damsel-- you who ask questions and answer them finally yourself-- tell me, What did the Fish do?" |
| 20718 | Tell me, Sage, why did this action cure the Dove of its great love for the man, when it had borne all the blows and cruelty without resentment?" |
| 20718 | The Sage, however, was not in the mind to let her go so soon, so he began a question:"Why do you caress that bird so much? |
| 20718 | The thought came to her,''What if it should not be silk all through and I have come to the end of matters? |
| 20718 | What does it all mean, Sage?" |
| 20718 | What shall I do?'' |
| 20718 | What then?" |
| 20718 | Which is the best course?" |
| 20718 | Why did the man do this?" |
| 20718 | Why was this, Sage? |
| 20718 | Why was this, Sage?" |
| 20718 | Will you not come out and sit in the sun while you answer?" |
| 26604 | Why not rest from your labors now? |
| 26604 | Are not flowers the stars of the earth? |
| 26604 | But, sir, you will allow that some players are better than others? |
| 26604 | Can it be true, what is so constantly affirmed, that there is no sex in souls? |
| 26604 | Can the power that kills be the same that is killed? |
| 26604 | God can afford to wait; why can not we, since we have Him to fall back upon? |
| 26604 | He is given a freedom of his will; but wherefore? |
| 26604 | Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man? |
| 26604 | Must it not necessarily be something superior and surviving? |
| 26604 | Necker._~Questions.~--There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can, in this state, receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? |
| 26604 | The act of the soul, which in that fatal instant is in one sense so great an act of power, can it at the same time be the act of its own annihilation? |
| 26604 | The question of common sense is always:"What is it good for?" |
| 26604 | To be happy we must forget the past, and think not of the future; and who that has a soul or mind can do this? |
| 26604 | Was it but to torment and perplex him the more? |
| 26604 | What honest boy would pride himself on not picking a pocket? |
| 26604 | What is depth, after all? |
| 26604 | What is matter? |
| 26604 | What is the soul? |
| 26604 | What medicine can procure digestion? |
| 26604 | What will alleviate incurable evils? |
| 26604 | What will recruit strength? |
| 26604 | What, then, is it worth? |
| 26604 | Why not on Christianity, wholesome, sweet, and poetic? |
| 26604 | Why was this world created? |
| 26604 | You can hear''em rattle as they walk.--_Douglas__ Jerrold._~Heaven.~--The love of heaven makes one heavenly.--_Shakespeare._ Where is heaven? |
| 26604 | what does man here below? |
| 26604 | ~Obedience.~--To obey is better than sacrifice.--_Bible._ How will you find good? |
| 31672 | ( from clochur? |
| 31672 | (?) |
| 31672 | (?) |
| 31672 | ), ale without a habitation(? |
| 31672 | ), without warping(? |
| 31672 | ); staying in one''s residence, honesty lest he utter falsehood, suffering(?) |
| 31672 | -a 105. brodna(?) |
| 31672 | 1103. itfa(?) |
| 31672 | 127. grainne(?) |
| 31672 | 166;( 2)_ a person wearing_ aurla,_ a serf_(? |
| 31672 | 219. toicthiu(?) |
| 31672 | 231. crésine f._ piety_ 196. crossán m._ a buffoon_ 116. cúacróessach(?) |
| 31672 | 345^{c}3. dodeime(?) |
| 31672 | 74^{a}30. dí- galrae f._ sicklessness_ 119. dí- grad n._ hatred_ 217. dímainche f._ uselessness_ 81. dímainecht f._ uselessness_ 81 H. dímosc(?) |
| 31672 | 78, 4. argius_ instruction_(? |
| 31672 | A ready conveyance(? |
| 31672 | As examples I select the following two triads:-- Tres bacheriosi(?) |
| 31672 | Cia mesam hi trebod? |
| 31672 | Cisne trí ana soitcedach? |
| 31672 | Compare the following extract from H. 3, 18, p. 19_b_:_ Cest._ Cid diatá"ní nais ná torbais"? |
| 31672 | For it is hard for a man of a family to be given with(?) |
| 31672 | M. 71, 21. faiscsiu_ closeness_(?) |
| 31672 | The pottages of guarantorship: wer- geld or a debtor''s... or non- possession(? |
| 31672 | The three fields(?) |
| 31672 | Three debts which must not be neglected:[127] debts of land, payment of a field, instruction(?) |
| 31672 | Three duties of guarantorship: staying( at home), honesty, suffering(? |
| 31672 | Three signs of boorishness: strife, and contention, and mistaking a person for another(? |
| 31672 | Three sons whom chastity bears to wisdom: valour, generosity, laughter( filial piety?). |
| 31672 | Three sons whom folly bears to anger: frowning,...,[ 89] mockery(?). |
| 31672 | Three speeches that are better than silence: inciting a king to battle, spreading knowledge(? |
| 31672 | Three things that constitute a carpenter: joining together without calculating(? |
| 31672 | What are the three wealths of fortunate people? |
| 31672 | What is worst in a household? |
| 31672 | [ 42] Probably near_ Sescenn Uarbéoil_ in Leinster( Mountseskenn?). |
| 31672 | [ Note 113: haisgeadha edualaing B erg gen cotis H tuc gen gud beirg(?) |
| 31672 | _ Cf._ Plato, Republic:"But surely you would never give back to a mad friend a sword which he had lent you?" |
| 31672 | _ a stone building_(?) |
| 31672 | buicc 230. boccacht f._ buckishness_,_ obstinacy_ 101, 102. bolcra(?) |
| 31672 | cia hiat na trí sonais dogheibh an duine sonadh? |
| 31672 | crann- dretel(?) |
| 31672 | dlúithe f._ compactness_,_ obscurity_(?) |
| 31672 | echmuir(?) |
| 31672 | eochracha 204. erchoille(?) |
| 31672 | eserni(?) |
| 31672 | fiada( fiad L) 70. fidchell(?) |
| 31672 | for-[.s]naidm(= for- naidm, with epenthetic_ s_) n._ an overreaching_(?) |
| 31672 | fothirbe_ a field_(?) |
| 31672 | fóindil 181. fomailt( verb- n. of fo- melim) f._ usufruct_ 87. fomus( verb- n. of fo- midiur) m._ calculation_(?) |
| 31672 | glais 203. goirt_ salted_, bíad g. 70. goriath(?) |
| 31672 | gretha,_ ib._ grúss(?) |
| 31672 | salanaig 230. saltraim_ I trample_, rosaltrus 104. sámtha_ repose_ 189. sant f._ avarice_ 115. scenb_ a startling_(?) |
| 31672 | trichtach_ example_,_ pattern_(?) |