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On the left of the garden stretched the lofty eastern front of the Museum itself, with its picture galleries, halls of statuary, dining halls, and lecture rooms; one huge wing containing that famous library, founded by the father of Philadelphus, which hold in the time of Seneca, even after the destruction of a great part of it in Caesar's siege, four hundred thousand manuscripts. | On the left of the garden stretched the lofty eastern front of the Museum itself, with its picture galleries, halls of statuary, dining-halls, and lecture-rooms; one huge wing containing that famous library, founded by the father of Philadelphus, which hold in the time of Seneca, even after the destruction of a great part of it in Caesar's siege, four hundred thousand manuscripts. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000002_000000.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000002_000000 |
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'Yes. | 'Yes. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000005_000000.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000005_000000 |
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The statues there are broken. | The statues there are broken. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000005_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000005_000001 |
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If the gods have deserted their oracles, they have not deserted the souls who aspire to them. | If the gods have deserted their oracles, they have not deserted the souls who aspire to them. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000005_000007.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000005_000007 |
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To show oneself superior to the herd, by seeing boundless depths of living glory in myths which have become dark and dead to them.... | To show oneself superior to the herd, by seeing boundless depths of living glory in myths which have become dark and dead to them.... | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000006_000004.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000006_000004 |
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I see her everywhere-till the last month at least-and here she is again! | I see her everywhere--till the last month at least--and here she is again! | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000008_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000008_000001 |
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Foolish!--foolish of me, a philosopher. | Foolish!--foolish of me, a philosopher. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000008_000004.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000008_000004 |
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I, to believe, against the authority of Porphyry himself, too, in evil eyes and magic! | I, to believe, against the authority of Porphyry himself, too, in evil eyes and magic! | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000008_000005.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000008_000005 |
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If there is faith in Pythagoras, the symbol should be an expanding series of the powers of three; and yet that accursed binary factor will introduce itself. | If there is faith in Pythagoras, the symbol should be an expanding series of the powers of three; and yet that accursed binary factor will introduce itself. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000009_000005.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000009_000005 |
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Did not you work the sum out once, Hypatia?' | Did not you work the sum out once, Hypatia?' | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000009_000006.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000009_000006 |
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You have tasted no food yet this day.' | You have tasted no food yet this day.' | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000010_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000010_000001 |
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'What do I care for food! | 'What do I care for food! | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000011_000000.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000011_000000 |
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There is fruit, with lentils and rice, waiting for you in the next room; and bread, unless you despise it too much.' | There is fruit, with lentils and rice, waiting for you in the next room; and bread, unless you despise it too much.' | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000012_000002.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000012_000002 |
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'Well, I will eat, and be ashamed of eating. | 'Well, I will eat, and be ashamed of eating. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000013_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000013_000001 |
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Stay, did I tell you? | Stay, did I tell you? | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000013_000002.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000013_000002 |
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Six new pupils in the mathematical school this morning. | Six new pupils in the mathematical school this morning. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000013_000003.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000013_000003 |
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It spreads! | It spreads! | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000013_000005.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000013_000005 |
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We shall conquer yet!' | We shall conquer yet!' | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000013_000006.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000013_000006 |
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Strange! that men should be content to grovel, and be men, when they might rise to the rank of gods! | Strange! that men should be content to grovel, and be men, when they might rise to the rank of gods! | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000014_000002.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000014_000002 |
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That is my bitterest grief! to see those who have been pretending in the morning lecture room to worship every word of mine as an oracle, lounging in the afternoon round Pelagia's litter; and then at night-for I know that they do it-the dice, and the wine, and worse. | That is my bitterest grief! to see those who have been pretending in the morning lecture-room to worship every word of mine as an oracle, lounging in the afternoon round Pelagia's litter; and then at night--for I know that they do it--the dice, and the wine, and worse. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000014_000004.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000014_000004 |
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'And why should that disturb me? | 'And why should that disturb me? | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000018_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000018_000001 |
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Let him enter.' | Let him enter.' | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000018_000002.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000018_000002 |
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'Ah, so they say-Your excellent father has vanished. | 'Ah, so they say--Your excellent father has vanished. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000022_000000.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000022_000000 |
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'And multiplying, I don't doubt. | 'And multiplying, I don't doubt. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000024_000000.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000024_000000 |
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Well, there will be less loss to the empire if I have to crucify a dozen or two, as I positively will, the next riot. | Well, there will be less loss to the empire if I have to crucify a dozen or two, as I positively will, the next riot. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000024_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000024_000001 |
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It is really a great comfort to a statesman that the masses are so well aware that they deserve hanging, and therefore so careful to prevent any danger of public justice depopulating the province. | It is really a great comfort to a statesman that the masses are so well aware that they deserve hanging, and therefore so careful to prevent any danger of public justice depopulating the province. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000024_000002.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000024_000002 |
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I plead guilty myself. | I plead guilty myself. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000026_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000026_000001 |
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I met that prettiest and naughtiest of humanities half-way between here and Thebes, transformed into a perfect Andromache of chaste affection.' | I met that prettiest and naughtiest of humanities half-way between here and Thebes, transformed into a perfect Andromache of chaste affection.' | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000028_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000028_000001 |
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'And to whom, pray?' | 'And to whom, pray?' | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000029_000000.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000029_000000 |
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'To tell you the truth, he had some forty stout countrymen of his with him, who might have been troublesome to a perplexed prefect; not to mention that it is always as well to keep on good terms with these Goths. | 'To tell you the truth, he had some forty stout countrymen of his with him, who might have been troublesome to a perplexed prefect; not to mention that it is always as well to keep on good terms with these Goths. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000032_000000.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000032_000000 |
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'Justice.' | 'Justice.' | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000035_000000.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000035_000000 |
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'Well, my dear lady, and has not the villainous demagogue got the whole mob on his side? | 'Well, my dear lady, and has not the villainous demagogue got the whole mob on his side? | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000038_000000.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000038_000000 |
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'Ah, that your excellency but saw the great duel which depends on you alone! | 'Ah, that your excellency but saw the great duel which depends on you alone! | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000039_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000039_000001 |
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'I expect every time I ride, to have my brains knocked out by some mad monk.' | 'I expect every time I ride, to have my brains knocked out by some mad monk.' | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000042_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000042_000001 |
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In an age when, as has been well and often said, emperors and consulars crawl to the tombs of a tent maker and a fisherman, and kiss the mouldy bones of the vilest slaves? | In an age when, as has been well and often said, emperors and consulars crawl to the tombs of a tent-maker and a fisherman, and kiss the mouldy bones of the vilest slaves? | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000043_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000043_000001 |
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Why not, among a people whose God is the crucified son of a carpenter? | Why not, among a people whose God is the crucified son of a carpenter? | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000043_000002.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000043_000002 |
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I quite agree that there are very great practical inconveniences of this kind in the new-I mean the Catholic faith; but the world is full of inconveniences. | I quite agree that there are very great practical inconveniences of this kind in the new--I mean the Catholic faith; but the world is full of inconveniences. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000044_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000044_000001 |
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'That it never will be, as long as Hypatia lives to illuminate the earth; and, as far as I am concerned, I promise you a clear stage and-a great deal of favour; as is proved by my visiting you publicly at this moment, before I have given audience to one of the four hundred bores, great and small, who are waiting in the tribunal to torment me. | 'That it never will be, as long as Hypatia lives to illuminate the earth; and, as far as I am concerned, I promise you a clear stage and--a great deal of favour; as is proved by my visiting you publicly at this moment, before I have given audience to one of the four hundred bores, great and small, who are waiting in the tribunal to torment me. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000046_000000.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000046_000000 |
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What am I to do?' | What am I to do?' | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000046_000002.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000046_000002 |
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But out of the lecture room I prefer a practical expedient for instance, Cyril writes to me here-plague on him! he would not let me even have a week's hunting in peace that there is a plot on the part of the Jews to murder all the Christians. | But out of the lecture-room I prefer a practical expedient for instance, Cyril writes to me here--plague on him! he would not let me even have a week's hunting in peace-that there is a plot on the part of the Jews to murder all the Christians. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000048_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000048_000001 |
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For aught I know or care, the plot may be an exactly opposite one, and the Christians intend to murder all the Jews. | For aught I know or care, the plot may be an exactly opposite one, and the Christians intend to murder all the Jews. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000048_000003.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000048_000003 |
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But I must take some notice of the letter.' | But I must take some notice of the letter.' | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000048_000004.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000048_000004 |
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'Why, if anything did happen, after all, conceive the missives which would be sent flying off to Constantinople against me!' | 'Why, if anything did happen, after all, conceive the missives which would be sent flying off to Constantinople against me!' | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000050_000000.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000050_000000 |
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'Consciousness of innocence? | 'Consciousness of innocence? | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000052_000000.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000052_000000 |
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How the finances of the provinces would go on without their kind assistance, I dare not think. | How the finances of the provinces would go on without their kind assistance, I dare not think. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000054_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000054_000001 |
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But now....' | But now....' | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000054_000003.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000054_000003 |
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You philosophers, however raised above your own bodies you may be, must really not forget that we poor worldlings have bones to be broken.' | You philosophers, however raised above your own bodies you may be, must really not forget that we poor worldlings have bones to be broken.' | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000058_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000058_000001 |
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How can he, whose sphere lies above the stars, stoop every moment to earth? | How can he, whose sphere lies above the stars, stoop every moment to earth? | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000011_000002.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000011_000002 |
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What men those barbarians do breed! | What men those barbarians do breed! | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000030_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000030_000001 |
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And as for the great brute himself, he has rank enough in his way,--boasts of his descent from some cannibal god or other,--really hardly deigned to speak to a paltry Roman governor, till his faithful and adoring bride interceded for me. | And as for the great brute himself, he has rank enough in his way,--boasts of his descent from some cannibal god or other,--really hardly deigned to speak to a paltry Roman governor, till his faithful and adoring bride interceded for me. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000032_000002.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000032_000002 |
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'Ah, Fairest Wisdom, don't mention that horrid word out of the lecture room. | 'Ah, Fairest Wisdom, don't mention that horrid word out of the lecture-room. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000036_000000.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000036_000000 |
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But how go on the schools?' | But how go on the schools?' | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000024_000003.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000024_000003 |
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If those Christians would but lend me their money, instead of building alms houses and hospitals with it, they might burn the Jews' quarter to morrow, for aught I care. | If those Christians would but lend me their money, instead of building alms-houses and hospitals with it, they might burn the Jews' quarter to-morrow, for aught I care. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000054_000002.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000054_000002 |
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Here is the precious document-do look at it, in pity. | Here is the precious document--do look at it, in pity. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000048_000002.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000048_000002 |
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Thank the gods, there she moves away! | Thank the gods, there she moves away! | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000008_000003.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000008_000003 |
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Really, after the sack of Rome, and Athens cleaned out like a beehive by wasps, things begin to look serious. | Really, after the sack of Rome, and Athens cleaned out like a beehive by wasps, things begin to look serious. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000032_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000032_000001 |
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'Why not? | 'Why not? | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000043_000000.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000043_000000 |
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The place seemed fragrant with all the riches of Greek thought and song, since the days when Ptolemy Philadelphus walked there with Euclid and Theocritus, Callimachus and Lycophron. | The place seemed fragrant with all the riches of Greek thought and song, since the days when Ptolemy Philadelphus walked there with Euclid and Theocritus, Callimachus and Lycophron. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000001_000004.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000001_000004 |
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But there is my father, pacing up and down in the library.' | But there is my father, pacing up and down in the library.' | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000008_000006.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000008_000006 |
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There it towered up, the wonder of the world, its white roof bright against the rainless blue; and beyond it, among the ridges and pediments of noble buildings, a broad glimpse of the bright blue sea. | There it towered up, the wonder of the world, its white roof bright against the rainless blue; and beyond it, among the ridges and pediments of noble buildings, a broad glimpse of the bright blue sea. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000002_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000002_000001 |
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But while we are in this prison house of matter, we must wear our chain; even wear it gracefully, if we have the good taste; and make the base necessities of this body of shame symbolic of the divine food of the reason. | But while we are in this prison-house of matter, we must wear our chain; even wear it gracefully, if we have the good taste; and make the base necessities of this body of shame symbolic of the divine food of the reason. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000012_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000012_000001 |
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The oracles are dumb. | The oracles are dumb. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000005_000004.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000005_000004 |
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He paced impatiently up and down the chamber, while his keen, glittering eyes and restless gestures betokened intense inward thought.... 'I have it.... | He paced impatiently up and down the chamber, while his keen, glittering eyes and restless gestures betokened intense inward thought.... 'I have it.... | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000009_000002.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000009_000002 |
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Does your excellency, or this proud bishop, govern Alexandria?' | Does your excellency, or this proud bishop, govern Alexandria?' | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000055_000003.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000055_000003 |
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Listen! | Listen! | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000004_000002.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000004_000002 |
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I was afraid of being crushed under the elephant's foot at every step I took with him!' | I was afraid of being crushed under the elephant's foot at every step I took with him!' | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000030_000002.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000030_000002 |
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However, I got rid of them; quoted all the geographical lies I had ever heard, and a great many more; quickened their appetite for their fool's errand notably, and started them off again. | However, I got rid of them; quoted all the geographical lies I had ever heard, and a great many more; quickened their appetite for their fool's errand notably, and started them off again. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000032_000004.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000032_000004 |
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The consequence is clear. | The consequence is clear. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000057_000002.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000057_000002 |
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The inexpressible must be expressed, the work must be done if it cost me the squaring of the circle. | The inexpressible must be expressed, the work must be done if it cost me the squaring of the circle. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000011_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000011_000001 |
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The alcoves are silent. | The alcoves are silent. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000005_000003.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000005_000003 |
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If they have ceased to guide nations, they have not ceased to speak to their own elect. | If they have ceased to guide nations, they have not ceased to speak to their own elect. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000005_000008.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000005_000008 |
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'Let them go. | 'Let them go. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000051_000000.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000051_000000 |
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'Recollect that you are a Christian,' answered Hypatia, half smiling. | 'Recollect that you are a Christian,' answered Hypatia, half smiling. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000061_000000.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000061_000000 |
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'His excellency, madam, the prefect! | 'His excellency, madam, the prefect! | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000017_000000.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000017_000000 |
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You must not be hard on us.... | You must not be hard on us.... | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000026_000003.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000026_000003 |
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He was a Greek, also, but of a more common, and, perhaps, lower type; dark and fiery, thin and graceful; his delicate figure and cheeks, wasted by meditation, harmonised well with the staid and simple philosophic cloak which he wore as a sign of his profession. | He was a Greek, also, but of a more common, and, perhaps, lower type; dark and fiery, thin and graceful; his delicate figure and cheeks, wasted by meditation, harmonised well with the staid and simple philosophic cloak which he wore as a sign of his profession. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000009_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000009_000001 |
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In theory it is all very well; but in poor imperfect earthly practice, a governor must be content with doing very much what comes to hand. | In theory it is all very well; but in poor imperfect earthly practice, a governor must be content with doing very much what comes to hand. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000036_000001.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000036_000001 |
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It grows! | It grows! | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000013_000004.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000013_000004 |
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I will ask the prefect to find out who she is, and get rid of her, before she fascinates me with that evil eye. | I will ask the prefect to find out who she is, and get rid of her, before she fascinates me with that evil eye. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000008_000002.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000008_000002 |
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School after school, they had all walked, and taught, and sung there, beneath the spreading planes and chestnuts, figs and palm trees. | School after school, they had all walked, and taught, and sung there, beneath the spreading planes and chestnuts, figs and palm-trees. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9008/2902_9008_000001_000003.wav | 9008 | 2902_9008_000001_000003 |
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All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. | All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000000_000001.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000000_000001 |
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HYPATIA | HYPATIA | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000003_000000.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000003_000000 |
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PREFACE | PREFACE | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000007_000000.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000007_000000 |
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A picture of life in the fifth century must needs contain much which will be painful to any reader, and which the young and innocent will do well to leave altogether unread. | A picture of life in the fifth century must needs contain much which will be painful to any reader, and which the young and innocent will do well to leave altogether unread. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000008_000000.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000008_000000 |
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Their vanguard, confined with difficulty for three centuries beyond the Eastern Alps, at the expense of sanguinary wars, had been adopted wherever it was practicable, into the service of the Empire; and the heart's core of the Roman legion was composed of Gothic officers and soldiers. | Their vanguard, confined with difficulty for three centuries beyond the Eastern Alps, at the expense of sanguinary wars, had been adopted wherever it was practicable, into the service of the Empire; and the heart's core of the Roman legion was composed of Gothic officers and soldiers. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000020_000001.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000020_000001 |
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I can only say that I have laboured honestly and industriously to discover the truth, even in its minutest details, and to sketch the age, its manners and its literature, as I found them altogether artificial, slipshod, effete, resembling far more the times of Louis Quinze than those of Sophocles and Plato. | I can only say that I have laboured honestly and industriously to discover the truth, even in its minutest details, and to sketch the age, its manners and its literature, as I found them-altogether artificial, slipshod, effete, resembling far more the times of Louis Quinze than those of Sophocles and Plato. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000025_000001.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000025_000001 |
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This is a LibriVox recording. | This is a LibriVox recording. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000000_000000.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000000_000000 |
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For a time had arrived, in which no teacher who did not put forth the most lofty pretensions to righteousness could expect a hearing. | For a time had arrived, in which no teacher who did not put forth the most lofty pretensions to righteousness could expect a hearing. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000010_000000.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000010_000000 |
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In the present case that disadvantage is doubled; for while the sins of the Church, however heinous, were still such as admit of being expressed in words, the sins of the heathen world, against which she fought, were utterly indescribable; and the Christian apologist is thus compelled, for the sake of decency, to state the Church's case far more weakly than the facts deserve. | In the present case that disadvantage is doubled; for while the sins of the Church, however heinous, were still such as admit of being expressed in words, the sins of the heathen world, against which she fought, were utterly indescribable; and the Christian apologist is thus compelled, for the sake of decency, to state the Church's case far more weakly than the facts deserve. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000008_000004.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000008_000004 |
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And their strength was felt at once. | And their strength was felt at once. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000020_000000.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000020_000000 |
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For somewhat more than four hundred years, the Roman Empire and the Christian Church, born into the world almost at the same moment, had been developing themselves side by side as two great rival powers, in deadly struggle for the possession of the human race. | For somewhat more than four hundred years, the Roman Empire and the Christian Church, born into the world almost at the same moment, had been developing themselves side by side as two great rival powers, in deadly struggle for the possession of the human race. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000011_000000.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000011_000000 |
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So thought many then, and, as I believe, not unwisely. | So thought many then, and, as I believe, not unwisely. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000014_000005.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000014_000005 |
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That very peculiar turn of the Graeco Eastern mind, which made them the great thinkers of the then world, had the effect of drawing them away from practice to speculation; and the races of Egypt and Syria were effeminate, over civilised, exhausted by centuries during which no infusion of fresh blood had come to renew the stock. | That very peculiar turn of the Graeco-Eastern mind, which made them the great thinkers of the then world, had the effect of drawing them away from practice to speculation; and the races of Egypt and Syria were effeminate, over-civilised, exhausted by centuries during which no infusion of fresh blood had come to renew the stock. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000022_000002.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000022_000002 |
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He dare not tell how evil people were; he will not be believed if he tells how good they were. | He dare not tell how evil people were; he will not be believed if he tells how good they were. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000008_000003.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000008_000003 |
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The fifteen years before the time of this tale had decided the fate of Greece; the last four that of Rome itself. | The fifteen years before the time of this tale had decided the fate of Greece; the last four that of Rome itself. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000020_000006.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000020_000006 |
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Here and there an abuse was lopped off; or an edict was passed for the visitation of prisons and for the welfare of prisoners; or a Theodosius was recalled to justice and humanity for a while by the stern rebukes of an Ambrose. | Here and there an abuse was lopped off; or an edict was passed for the visitation of prisons and for the welfare of prisoners; or a Theodosius was recalled to justice and humanity for a while by the stern rebukes of an Ambrose. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000014_000001.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000014_000001 |
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The Egyptian and Syrian Churches, therefore, were destined to labour not for themselves, but for us. | The Egyptian and Syrian Churches, therefore, were destined to labour not for themselves, but for us. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000022_000000.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000022_000000 |
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Monastic isolation from family and national duties especially fitted the fathers of that period for the task, by giving them leisure, if nothing else, to face questions with a lifelong earnestness impossible to the more social and practical Northern mind. | Monastic isolation from family and national duties especially fitted the fathers of that period for the task, by giving them leisure, if nothing else, to face questions with a lifelong earnestness impossible to the more social and practical Northern mind. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000023_000002.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000023_000002 |
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By Charles Kingsley | By Charles Kingsley | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000006_000000.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000006_000000 |
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It has to represent a very hideous, though a very great, age; one of those critical and cardinal eras in the history of the human race, in which virtues and vices manifest themselves side by side-even, at times, in the same person-with the most startling openness and power. | It has to represent a very hideous, though a very great, age; one of those critical and cardinal eras in the history of the human race, in which virtues and vices manifest themselves side by side--even, at times, in the same person--with the most startling openness and power. | 2902 | /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/extracted/b276a6c157135610b1ff05eb9cf5566c91891020750e98fb8bd68ba4103a12da/LibriTTS/dev-clean/2902/9006/2902_9006_000008_000001.wav | 9006 | 2902_9006_000008_000001 |
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