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.

identifier	question
8528	I wonder why it is?
8528	Of course it DOESN''T come down, but why should it SEEM to?
8528	Then why is it that I love him?
8528	Was she satisfied now?
8527	After a pause he asked:"How did it come?"
8527	He went to the edge of the burned place and stood looking down, and said:"What are these?"
8527	He would ask what it was good for, and what could I answer?
8527	They are forbidden, and he says I shall come to harm; but so I come to harm through pleasing him, why shall I care for that harm?
8527	Where did he get that word?
8526	Can it be that it was designed and manufactured for such ungentle work?
8526	Has n''t it any compassion for those little creature?
8526	Has n''t it any heart?
8526	I wonder if THAT is what it is for?
8526	If this reptile is a man, it is n''t an IT, is it?
8526	Is my position assured, or do I have to watch it and take care of it?
8526	That would n''t be grammatical, would it?
8526	Then if I am an experiment, am I the whole of it?
398	Am I my brother''s keeper?
398	Am I my brother''s keeper?
398	1 After this Satan called to his hosts, all of which came to him, and said to him:-- 2"O, our lord, what will you do?"
398	1 But when Adam came out and saw his hideous figure, he was afraid of him, and said to him,"Who are you?"
398	1 Then Adam said to Eve,"Do you not see these figs and their leaves, with which we covered ourselves when we were stripped of our bright nature?
398	1 Then came the Word of God to Adam and Eve, and raised them from their dead state, saying to them,"Why did you come up here?
398	1 Then the Word of God came and said:-- 2"O Adam, who counselled you, when you came out of the cave, to come to this place?"
398	1 Then the Word of God came to Adam, and said to him,"O Adam, why did n''t you have this dread, or this fasting, or this care before now?
398	10 Adam said again to Eve,"What is our body today, compared to what it was in former days, when we lived in the garden?"
398	10 Then Adam said to Eve,"Wherefore has the mountain bent itself, and the earth quaked and shaken on our account?
398	11 Does God intend to plague us and to shut us up in this prison?
398	11 O Lord, will You then plague us with this darkness?"
398	12 Where shall we find Him, to comfort us a second time?
398	17 Then Cain answered with a proud heart and a gruff voice,"How, O God?
398	18 Then Eve said,"What is that matter, O Adam?"
398	2 Then Eve answered,"How can we do it?"
398	20 Then Eve said to Adam,"Why need we go below the mountain?
398	24 And He said to him,"Where is your brother?"
398	26 But God said to cain,"Why do you look sad?
398	3 But when Adam heard these words from him, he said to him,"Can you make me a garden as God made for me?
398	4 And God began to speak to Adam and Eve, saying to them,"What made you come out of the cave, to this place?"
398	4 And God said to Adam,"O Adam, what do you seek on the western border?
398	4 Then the Lord God said to Adam,"O Adam, you dread the heat of fire for one night, but how will it be when you live in hell?
398	4 What is it compared with the garden?
398	4 Where is the divine nature you promised to give me?
398	5 And Adam cried and said to Eve,"Did we go to the wrong cave, then, O Eve?
398	5 Then Adam cried, in deep affliction, and beat his chest; and he got up and said to Eve,"Where are you?"
398	5 Then Adam said to God,"Did you create a man before us?
398	5 Then Adam said to them,"But how do you multiply?"
398	5 Then Satan said to Adam,"Do you think that when I have promised one something that I would actually deliver it to him or fulfil my word?
398	5 Then look at Me, O Adam; I created you, and how many times have I delivered you out of his hand?
398	5 What is this rock, by the side of those groves?
398	6 And Adam said,"What is it?"
398	6 And Eve said to him,"What is it you have seen that has caused you to cry and to speak to me in this manner?"
398	6 What is this overhanging ledge of rock to shelter us, compared with the mercy of the Lord that overshadowed us?
398	7 And Satan said again to Adam,"Do n''t be afraid and do n''t tremble; do n''t you know us?"
398	7 And he said to Eve,"Do you not see this water that was with us in the garden, that watered the trees of the garden, and flowed out from there?
398	7 Do you think, Adam, that he loved you when he made this agreement with you?
398	7 If this be really so, O Eve, where shall we live?
398	7 Then Adam stood up in the cave and said,"O God, why has light departed from us, and darkness covered us?
398	7 What is the soil of this cave compared with the garden land?
398	8 And this darkness, O Lord, where was it before it covered us?
398	8 But now that He has brought us out into another land, who knows what may happen in it?
398	8 Then Cain said with joy,"Where are your relations?"
398	9 Then Satan said to Adam,"O Adam, why are you so pained with hunger and thirst?
398	9 Then they said to Adam and Eve,"See all our husbands and our children?
398	9 What, then, is his beauty that you should have followed him?
398	9 Who knows what may happen in that land by day or by night?
398	Am I dead?"
398	Am I my brother''s keeper?"
398	And Adam said to Eve,"What is that fire by our cave?
398	And what have you gained by obeying him?
398	And what shall I desire and ask of you, O God, when it is gone?"
398	And when he came up to Eve he said to her,"Who told you to come here?"
398	And where is the gift he promised?
398	And where shall we flee from before the face of the Lord?
398	And who knows but that the darkness of that land may be far greater than the darkness of this land?
398	And who knows whether it will be far or near, O Eve?
398	And why did n''t you have this fear before you transgressed?
398	And why has this rock spread itself over us like a tent?
398	And why have you left of thine own accord the eastern border, in which was your living place?
398	Chapter LI-"What is his beauty that you should have followed him?"
398	Chapter LI-"What is his beauty that you should have followed him?"
398	Did he really then become king over us?
398	Do you intend to go into the garden, from which I brought you out?
398	Do you suppose that there is another cave besides this one in the earth?
398	For as to the word of God to Cain,"Where is your brother?"
398	If not, would n''t he have destroyed you?"
398	Is not our deliverance long and far off, unless God come, and in mercy to us fulfil His promise?"
398	O God, have you taken them, and sown these two trees, or have we gone astray in the earth; or has the enemy deceived us?
398	O my Lord, what shall we do to Your servants?"
398	Or can you clothe me in the same bright nature in which God had clothed me?
398	Or that he loved you and wished to raise you on high?
398	Or where God will prevent us from beholding Him, because we have transgressed His commandment, and because we have made requests of Him at all times?
398	Or will He close the earth over us?
398	So Adam said to Eve:-- 2"Look, the fire has burnt our flesh in this world; but how will it be when we are dead, and Satan shall punish our souls?
398	Then Satan answered,"It is a simple thing, yet it is the Word of God, will you accept it from us and do it?
398	This earth, strewed with stones; and that, planted with delicious fruit trees?"
398	What is its narrowness compared with the space of the other?
398	What is the gloom of this cavern, compared with the light of the garden?
398	When did these two trees grow here?
398	Where are those sheep of thine you told me to bless?"
398	Where is his divinity?
398	Where is his light?
398	Where is that slick speech of yours that you had with us at first, when we were in the garden?"
398	Where is the glory that rested on him?
398	Where is this love for you?
398	Where it will please God to put us, may be far from the garden, O Eve?
398	Where shall we find Him, that He may think of us, as regards the covenant He has made on our behalf?"
398	Where, then, is the beauty that was on him?
398	Why did you leave us in this long darkness?
398	Why do you plague us like this?
398	Will You make us perish?
26	O father, what intends thy hand,she cried,"Against thy only son?
26	Wherefore cease we, then?
26	Ah, why should all mankind, For one man''s fault, thus guiltless be condemned, It guiltless?
26	Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
26	And am I now upbraided as the cause Of thy transgressing?
26	And do they only stand By ignorance?
26	And know''st for whom?
26	And what are Gods, that Man may not become As they, participating God- like food?
26	And what is faith, love, virtue, unassayed Alone, without exteriour help sustained?
26	And who knows, Let this be good, whether our angry Foe Can give it, or will ever?
26	And, though God Made thee without thy leave, what if thy son Prove disobedient, and reproved, retort,"Wherefore didst thou beget me?
26	As he our darkness, can not we his light Imitate when we please?
26	Being as I am, why didst not thou, the head, Command me absolutely not to go, Going into such danger, as thou saidst?
26	Book III Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam''d?
26	But fallen he is; and now What rests, but that the mortal sentence pass On his transgression,--death denounced that day?
26	But from me what can proceed, But all corrupt; both mind and will depraved Not to do only, but to will the same With me?
26	But have I now seen Death?
26	But is there yet no other way, besides These painful passages, how we may come To death, and mix with our connatural dust?
26	But past who can recall, or done undo?
26	But say, What meant that caution joined, If ye be found Obedient?
26	But say, if our Deliverer up to Heaven Must re- ascend, what will betide the few His faithful, left among the unfaithful herd, The enemies of truth?
26	But say, what mean those coloured streaks in Heaven Distended, as the brow of God appeased?
26	But to Adam in what sort Shall I appear?
26	But to convince the proud what signs avail, Or wonders move the obdurate to relent?
26	But what if better counsels might erect Our minds, and teach us to cast off this yoke?
26	But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to?
26	But wherefore all night long shine these?
26	But wherefore thou alone?
26	But whom send I to judge them?
26	But, first, whom shall we send In search of this new World?
26	But, if death Bind us with after- bands, what profits then Our inward freedom?
26	Can he make deathless death?
26	Can it be death?
26	Can it be sin to know?
26	Can thus The image of God in Man, created once So goodly and erect, though faulty since, To such unsightly sufferings be debased Under inhuman pains?
26	Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me Man?
26	Doctrine which we would know whence learned: who saw When this creation was?
26	Dwells in all Heaven charity so dear?
26	Faithful to whom?
26	First, what revenge?
26	For though the Lord of all be infinite, Is his wrath also?
26	For us alone Was death invented?
26	For, what admirest thou, what transports thee so, An outside?
26	Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good; why else set here?"
26	Gabriel?
26	Hadst thou the same free will and power to stand?
26	Hast thou eaten of the tree, Whereof I gave thee charge thou shouldst not eat?
26	Hast thou not made me here thy substitute, And these inferiour far beneath me set?
26	Hast thou not wondered, Adam, at my stay?
26	High matter thou enjoinest me, O prime of men, Sad task and hard: For how shall I relate To human sense the invisible exploits Of warring Spirits?
26	How can he exercise Wrath without end on Man, whom death must end?
26	How can they then acquitted stand In sight of God?
26	How comes it thus?
26	How dies the Serpent?
26	If thence he scape, into whatever world, Or unknown region, what remains him less Than unknown dangers, and as hard escape?
26	In heavenly Spirits could such perverseness dwell?
26	In plain then, what forbids he but to know, Forbids us good, forbids us to be wise?
26	In solitude What happiness, who can enjoy alone, Or, all enjoying, what contentment find?
26	Is knowledge so despised?
26	Is not the Earth With various living creatures, and the air Replenished, and all these at thy command To come and play before thee?
26	Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith?
26	Is this the end Of this new glorious world, and me so late The glory of that glory, who now become Accursed, of blessed?
26	Is this the way I must return to native dust?
26	Is this, then, worst-- Thus sitting, thus consulting, thus in arms?
26	It was but breath Of life that sinned; what dies but what had life And sin?
26	Know ye not then said Satan, filled with scorn, Know ye not me?
26	Knowest thou not Their language and their ways?
26	Me first He ruined, now Mankind; whom will he next?"
26	Meanwhile war arose, And fields were fought in Heaven: wherein remained( For what could else?)
26	Must I thus leave thee Paradise?
26	My voice thou oft hast heard, and hast not feared, But still rejoiced; how is it now become So dreadful to thee?
26	O Earth, how like to Heaven, if not preferred For what God, after better, worse would build?
26	O Teacher, some great mischief hath befallen To that meek man, who well had sacrificed; Is piety thus and pure devotion paid?
26	O, then, at last relent: Is there no place Left for repentance, none for pardon left?
26	Only begotten Son, seest thou what rage Transports our Adversary?
26	Or envy, or what reserve forbids to taste?
26	Or have ye chosen this place After the toil of battle to repose Your wearied virtue, for the ease you find To slumber here, as in the vales of Heaven?
26	Or hear''st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell?
26	Or is it envy?
26	Or serve they, as a flowery verge, to bind The fluid skirts of that same watery cloud, Lest it again dissolve, and shower the earth?
26	Or shall the Adversary thus obtain His end, and frustrate thine?
26	Or when we lay Chained on the burning lake?
26	Our Maker bids encrease; who bids abstain But our Destroyer, foe to God and Man?
26	Peace is despaired; For who can think submission?
26	Proud, art thou met?
26	Satan, I know thy strength, and thou knowest mine; Neither our own, but given: What folly then To boast what arms can do?
26	Say they who counsel war;"we are decreed, Reserved, and destined to eternal woe; Whatever doing, what can we suffer more, What can we suffer worse?"
26	Say, Woman, what is this which thou hast done?
26	Say, heavenly Powers, where shall we find such love?
26	Seem I to thee sufficiently possessed Of happiness, or not?
26	Serpent, thy overpraising leaves in doubt The virtue of that fruit, in thee first proved: But say, where grows the tree?
26	Shall Truth fail to keep her word, Justice Divine not hasten to be just?
26	Shall that be shut to Man, which to the Beast Is open?
26	Shall we, then, live thus vile-- the race of Heaven Thus trampled, thus expelled, to suffer here Chains and these torments?
26	Shalt thou give law to God?
26	Sight so deform what heart of rock could long Dry- eyed behold?
26	Sleepest thou, Companion dear?
26	That thou art naked, who Hath told thee?
26	That we were formed then sayest thou?
26	The former, vain to hope, argues as vain The latter; for what place can be for us Within Heaven''s bound, unless Heaven''s Lord supreme We overpower?
26	Their song was partial; but the harmony( What could it less when Spirits immortal sing?)
26	This deep world Of darkness do we dread?
26	This evening from the sun''s decline arrived, Who tells of some infernal Spirit seen Hitherward bent( who could have thought?)
26	Thou art my father, thou my author, thou My being gav''st me; whom should I obey But thee?
26	Thou hadst: whom hast thou then or what to accuse, But Heaven''s free love dealt equally to all?
26	Thou to me thy thoughts Wast wo nt, I mine to thee was wo nt to impart; Both waking we were one; how then can now Thy sleep dissent?
26	To the loss of that, Sufficient penalty, why hast thou added The sense of endless woes?
26	To whom the Goblin, full of wrath, replied:--"Art thou that traitor Angel?
26	Was I to have never parted from thy side?
26	Was she thy God, that her thou didst obey Before his voice?
26	Was this your discipline and faith engaged, Your military obedience, to dissolve Allegiance to the acknowledged Power supreme?
26	What callest thou solitude?
26	What can it the avail though yet we feel Strength undiminished, or eternal being To undergo eternal punishment?"
26	What can your knowledge hurt him, or this tree Impart against his will, if all be his?
26	What could I do, But follow straight, invisibly thus led?
26	What fear I then?
26	What fear we then?
26	What fury, O son, Possesses thee to bend that mortal dart Against thy father''s head?
26	What if the sun Be center to the world; and other stars, By his attractive virtue and their own Incited, dance about him various rounds?
26	What if we find Some easier enterprise?
26	What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
26	What may this mean?
26	What should they do?
26	What sit we then projecting peace and war?
26	What sleep can close Thy eye- lids?
26	What strength, what art, can then Suffice, or what evasion bear him safe, Through the strict senteries and stations thick Of Angels watching round?
26	What thinkest thou then of me, and this my state?
26	What though the field be lost?
26	What when we fled amain, pursued and struck With Heaven''s afflicting thunder, and besought The Deep to shelter us?
26	What will they then But force the Spirit of Grace itself, and bind His consort Liberty?
26	What wonder?
26	Where art thou, Adam, wo nt with joy to meet My coming seen far off?
26	Which of those rebel Spirits adjudged to Hell Comest thou, escaped thy prison?
26	Which of you will be mortal, to redeem Man''s mortal crime, and just the unjust to save?
26	Who can in reason then, or right, assume Monarchy over such as live by right His equals, if in power and splendour less, In freedom equal?
26	Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?
26	Who of all ages to succeed, but, feeling The evil on him brought by me, will curse My head?
26	Who then shall guide His people, who defend?
26	Whose but his own?
26	Why comes not Death, Said he, with one thrice- acceptable stroke To end me?
26	Why delays His hand to execute what his decree Fixed on this day?
26	Why do I overlive, Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out To deathless pain?
26	Why else this double object in our sight Of flight pursued in the air, and o''er the ground, One way the self- same hour?
26	Why is life given To be thus wrested from us?
26	Why should not Man, Retaining still divine similitude In part, from such deformities be free, And, for his Maker''s image sake, exempt?
26	Why should their Lord Envy them that?
26	Why shouldst not thou like sense within thee feel When I am present, and thy trial choose With me, best witness of thy virtue tried?
26	Why then was this forbid?
26	Why, but to awe; Why, but to keep ye low and ignorant, His worshippers?
26	Will he draw out, For anger''s sake, finite to infinite, In punished Man, to satisfy his rigour, Satisfied never?
26	Will they not deal Worse with his followers than with him they dealt?
26	Will ye submit your necks, and choose to bend The supple knee?
26	Wouldst thou admit for his contempt of thee That proud excuse?
26	Wouldst thou approve thy constancy, approve First thy obedience; the other who can know, Not seeing thee attempted, who attest?
26	Yet why?
26	and can envy dwell In heavenly breasts?
26	and the work Of secondary hands, by task transferred From Father to his Son?
26	and what is one?
26	and wherein lies The offence, that Man should thus attain to know?
26	and, transformed, Why sat''st thou like an enemy in wait, Here watching at the head of these that sleep?
26	but double how endured, To one, and to his image now proclaimed?
26	but what we more affect, Honour, dominion, glory, and renown; Who have sustained one day in doubtful fight,( And if one day, why not eternal days?)
26	by looks only?
26	by the fruit?
26	couldst thou support That burden, heavier than the earth to bear; Than all the world much heavier, though divided With that bad Woman?
26	did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me, or here place In this delicious garden?
26	do not believe Those rigid threats of death: ye shall not die: How should you?
26	expressed Immutable, when thou wert lost, not I; Who might have lived, and joyed immortal bliss, Yet willingly chose rather death with thee?
26	for what can I encrease, Or multiply, but curses on my head?
26	for whom This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes?
26	for, on earth, Who against faith and conscience can be heard Infallible?
26	from hence how far?
26	hath God then said that of the fruit Of all these garden- trees ye shall not eat, Yet Lords declared of all in earth or air?
26	how last unfold The secrets of another world, perhaps Not lawful to reveal?
26	how, without remorse, The ruin of so many glorious once And perfect while they stood?
26	it gives you life To knowledge; by the threatener?
26	language of man pronounced By tongue of brute, and human sense expressed?
26	of evil, if what is evil Be real, why not known, since easier shunned?
26	or can introduce Law and edict on us, who without law Err not?
26	or do they mix Irradiance, virtual or immediate touch?
26	or more than this, that we are dust, And thither must return, and be no more?
26	or these titles now Must we renounce, and, changing style, be called Princes of Hell?
26	or thou than they Less hardy to endure?
26	or to us denied This intellectual food, for beasts reserved?
26	or will God incense his ire For such a petty trespass?
26	or wilt thou thyself Abolish thy creation, and unmake For him, what for thy glory thou hast made?
26	rather, what know to fear Under this ignorance of good and evil, Of God or death, of law or penalty?
26	rather, why Obtruded on us thus?
26	rememberest thou Thy making, while the Maker gave thee being?
26	these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of Gods?
26	to thy rebellious crew?
26	what are these, Death''s ministers, not men?
26	what doubt we to incense His utmost ire?
26	what praise could they receive?
26	what, but unbuild His living temples, built by faith to stand, Their own faith, not another''s?
26	when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?
26	wherefore with thee Came not all hell broke loose?
26	wherefore, but in hope To dispossess him, and thyself to reign?
26	which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?
26	whom but thee, Vicegerent Son?
26	whom follow?
26	whom shall we find Sufficient?