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ON THE MOTION OF ANIMALSby Aristotletranslated by A. S. L. Farquharson1ELSEWHERE we have investigated in detail the movement of animalsafter their various kinds, the differences between them, and thereasons for their particular characters (for some animals fly, someswim, some walk, others move in various other ways); there remains...
Tour Through the Eastern Counties of Englandby Daniel DefoeI began my travels where I purpose to end them, viz., at the Cityof London, and therefore my account of the city itself will comelast, that is to say, at the latter end of my southern progress;and as in the course of this journey I shall have many occasions tocall it a circuit, if not a circle, so I chose to give it the titleof circuits in the plural, because I do not pretend to have...
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The Lights of the Church and the Light of Scienceby Thomas Henry HuxleyThere are three ways of regarding any account of pastoccurrences, whether delivered to us orally or recordedin writing.The narrative may be exactly true. That is to say, the words,taken in their natural sense, and interpreted according to therules of grammar, may convey to the mind of the hearer, or ofthe reader an idea precisely correspondent with one which wouldhave remained in the mind of a witness. For example, the...
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...
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一个上了年纪的木匠准备退休了。雇主很感谢他服务多年,问他能不能再建最后一栋房子。木匠答应了。可是,木匠的心思已经不在干活上了,干活马马虎虎,偷工减料,用劣质的材料随随便便地把房子盖好了。完工以后,雇主拍拍木匠的肩膀,诚恳地说:“房子归你了,这是我送给你的礼物。”木匠惊呆了。如果他知道他是在为自己建房子,他一定会用最优质的建材、最高明的技术,然而现在呢,却建成了"豆腐渣工程"!可是一切都已经来不及了。我们每个人都可能是这个木匠。每天,我们砌一块砖,钉一块木板,垒一面墙,最后,我们发现,我们居然不得不居住在自己建成的房子里。可是,到这时,一切都已经注定,我们已经无法回头了。这就是人生。充满了遗憾和嘲弄。...
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...