The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignanby Honore de BalzacTranslated by Katharine Prescott WormeleyDEDICATIONTo Theophile GautierTHE SECRETS OF THE PRINCESSE DE CADIGNANCHAPTER ITHE LAST WORD OF TWO GREAT COQUETTESAfter the disasters of the revolution of July, which destroyed so manyaristocratic fortunes dependent on the court, Madame la Princesse deCadignan was clever enough to attribute to political events the total...
The Memorabiliaor Recollections of Socratesby XenophonTranslation by H. G. DakynsXenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was apupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans,and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him landand property in Scillus, where he lived for manyyears before having to move once more, to settlein Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.The Memorabilia is a recollection of Socrates inword and deed, to show his character as the best...
FEMALE EDUCATION_To Nathaniel Burwell__Monticello, March 14, 1818_DEAR SIR, Your letter of February 17th found me sufferingunder an attack of rheumatism, which has but now left me atsufficient ease to attend to the letters I have received. A plan offemale education has never been a subject of systematic contemplationwith me. It has occupied my attention so far only as the educationof my own daughters occasionally required. Considering that they...
乍见书斋里,一灯如豆。夜风从紧闭的门扉缝隙中吹入,发出呼呼的低嚎。烛火随风摇曳,微弱昏黄的烛光映照出书斋内两条人影,在幽黯的夜色中,有种说不出来的邪诡。"名册遗失之事,你知道了吧?"上座者把玩着两只大小如卵的青玉圆球,发出清脆的撞击声,在夜里听来格外清冷。"知道了。""那份名册记载着与我们行动相关的成员,名册上七品以上的官员人数多达十余人,要是落到小皇帝那一帮人手中……不用我说,你也应该知道我们的下场如何吧?""明白。""不管怎么说,咱们都是同一艘船上的人,一旦翻了船,你也无法置身事外,不过……"他阴冷地笑了笑,"俗话说:。小心驶得万年船",只要我们把船驶得稳,自然什么事也没有。"...
美国著名发明家爱迪生上小学不到三个月,就被公认为“糊涂虫”、“低能儿”、“智商有障碍”。不得已,母亲只得把他接回家中自己教育。但是,母亲并不认为爱迪生是个低能儿。在母亲的教育下,爱迪生不仅爱上了读书,而且喜欢做各种实验。后来,在一次实验中,爱迪生不幸成为了聋子。但是,他一直记得母亲的教诲:“牛顿和瓦特在学校都算不上是优秀的学生,可是他们并不灰心,仍然继续不断地努力,终于发明了对人类有用的东西。只要你好好用功,妈妈相信,你也可以发明东西。” 成功后的爱迪生说:“我记得我一点都不能与学校相处,我在班里成绩最差。当老师叫我笨蛋时,母亲来到学校为我极力辩护,就从那时,我决定要给她争脸面,不辜负她对我的盼望。她实在是真正理解我的人。”...
SHERLOCK HOLMESTHE ADVENTURE OF WISTERIA LODGEby Sir Arthur Conan Doyle1. The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott EcclesI find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day,towards the end of March in the year 1892. Holmes had received atelegram while we sat at our lunch, and he had scribbled a reply. Hemade no remark, but the matter remained in his thoughts, for hestood in front of the fire afterwards with a thoughtful face,...
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Dayby Arnold BennettPREFACE TO THIS EDITIONThis preface, though placed at the beginning, as a preface must be,should be read at the end of the book.I have received a large amount of correspondence concerning thissmall work, and many reviews of itsome of them nearly as longas the book itselfhave been printed. But scarcely any of thecomment has been adverse. Some people have objected to afrivolity of tone; but as the tone is not, in my opinion, at all...
Honore de Balzacby Albert Keim and Louis LumetTranslated from the French by FREDERIC TABER COOPERGENERAL NOTEOf all the books perhaps the one best designed for training the mind and forming the character is "Plutarch." The lives of great men are object-lessons. They teach effort, devotion, industry, heroism and sacrifice.Even one who confines his reading solely to biographies of thinkers, writers, inventors, poets of the spirit or poets of science, will in a short time have acquired an understa