Thoughts on ManHis Nature, Productions and DiscoveriesInterspersed with Some ParticularsRespecting the AuthorbyWilliam GodwinOh, the blood more stirsTo rouse a lion, than to start a hare!SHAKESPEARELONDON: EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE. 1831.PREFACEIn the ensuing volume I have attempted to give a defined and permanent form to a variety of thoughts, which have occurred to my mind in the course of thirty-four years, it being so long since I published a volume, entitled, the Enquirer,thoughts,
第一天12月3日星期五“红十月”号核潜艇苏联海军一级舰长马科.拉米乌斯让特制的北极防寒服,呢绒服和油布衫在身上厚厚地裹了五层。这是在波利亚尔内的北海舰队潜艇基地里的标准服装。一艘肮脏的海港拖轮推着艇首,掉头向北,对着出海的航道。他的“红十月”号潜艇在船坞里熬过了漫长的两个月;船坞现在已成了一个灌满海水的水泥盒子。这种船坞是专门为战略寻弹潜艇修建的,能抵御当地严酷的大自然的侵袭。许多海军水兵和船工挤在船坞边上,默默地看着她启航,既没有挥手,也没有欢呼。这是俄国方式的:无动于衷。“轮机,缓速前进,卡马罗夫,”他命令道。拖轮离升了航道。拉米乌斯向艇尾看去,两个螺旋桨搅起了滚滚浪花。拖轮的船长向他挥动着手臂,拉米乌斯也向他挥挥手。拖轮干了一项很简单的工作,但是干得干净利落。“台风”级潜艇“红十月”号在自己的动力推动下向科里湾主航道驶去。...
IN THE town there were two mutes, and they were alwaystogether. Early every morning they would come out fromthe house where they lived and walk arm in arm down thestreet to work. The two friends were very different. Theone who always steered the way was an obese anddreamy Greek. In the summer he would come outwearing a yellow or green polo shirt stuffed sloppily intohis trousers in front and hanging loose behind. When itwas colder he wore over this a shapeless gray sweater....
Beatrixby Honore de BalzacTranslated by Katharine Prescott WormeleyNOTEIt is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did withtraits of character and the minute and daily circumstances oflife, has never been accused of representing actual persons in thetwo or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature.In "The Great Man of the Provinces in Paris" some likenesses wereimagined: Jules Janin in Etienne Lousteau, Armand Carrel in Michel...
The Majorby Ralph ConnorCONTENTSCHAPTERI THE COWARDII A FIGHT FOR FREEDOMIII THE ESCUTCHEON CLEAREDIV SALVAGEV WESTWARD HO!VI JANE BROWNVII THE GIRL OF THE WOOD LOTVIII YOU FORGOT MEIX EXCEPT HE STRIVE LAWFULLYX THE SPIRIT OF CANADAXI THE SHADOW OF WARXII MEN AND A MINEXIII A DAY IN SEPTEMBERXIV AN EXTRAORDINARY NURSEXV THE COMING OF JANEXVI HOSPITALITY WITHOUT GRUDGINGXVII THE TRAGEDIES OF LOVE...
White Liesby Charles ReadeCHAPTER I.Towards the close of the last century the Baron de Beaurepaire lived in the chateau of that name in Brittany. His family was of prodigious antiquity; seven successive barons had already flourished on this spot when a younger son of the house accompanied his neighbor the Duke of Normandy in his descent on England, and was rewarded by a grant of English land, on which he dug a mote and built a chateau, and called it Beaurepaire (the worthy Saxons turned this i
关于物种起源的见解的发展情况,我将在这里进行扼要叙述。直到最近,大多数博 物学者仍然相信物种(species)是不变的产物,并且是分别创造出来的。许多作者巧妙 地支持了这一观点。另一方面,有些少数博物学者已相信物种经历着变异,而且相信现 存生物类型都是既往生存类型所真正传下来的后裔。古代学者①只是影射地谈论到这个 问题,姑置不论,近代学者能以科学精神讨论这个问题的,首推布丰(Buffon),但他 的见解在不同时期变动很大,也没有讨论到物种变异的原因和途径,所以无须在此详述。 注1:亚里士多德(Aristole在《听诊术》(Physic Auscultationes)中,论 述了降雨不是为了使谷物生长,也不是为了毁坏农民的室外脱了粒的谷物,然后他以同 样的论点应用于有机体;他接着说道(此系克莱尔·格雷所[Clair Grece〕先生所译, 他首先把这一节示我):“有什么会阻止身体的不同部分去发生自然界中这种偶然的关 系...
第一章 “我们又在上升了吗?”“不,正相反!我们在下降!”“比那还要糟,史密斯先生!我们正在往下掉!”“天哪!快把压仓物扔出去吧!”“瞧!这最后的一袋都空了!”“气球上升了吗?”“没有!”“我好象听到波浪冲击的声音!”“吊篮下面就是海!”“离我们至多不过五百英尺了!”“把所有占分量的东西都扔下去!……所有的东西!” 这就是1865年3月23日下午四点钟从辽阔的太平洋上空传来的喊声。 那年春分前后,那场从东北方吹来的骇人暴风是令人难忘的。从3月18日到26日,大风暴片刻不停地怒吼着。它从北纬35度斜穿赤道,直到南纬40度,掠过了一千八百英里的地带,给美洲、欧洲和亚洲造成了严重的灾害。城市被吹毁;树木被连根拨起;排山倒海似的巨浪冲毁了堤岸,仅仅根据已经发表的数字,一直抛上陆地的船就有几百只;有些龙卷风经过的地方,整个都变成了平地;好几千人在陆上和海里丧了命;这就是当时疯狂肆虐...
作者: 姬晓东图书简介:楔子 当路山城中央那座建于明末清初的钟楼上传出八声悠远而沉闷的钟声时,散发着浓烈油墨味的《路山日报》便开始送进城里的各个机关单位了。 《路山日报》不很好看,不,准确地说应该是很不好看,就像报纸散发出的那种腻腻的劣质油墨味道那样,报纸简直和一碗酸溜巴叽且丝丝瓤瓤不成形的发馊饭菜差不多。在路山地区,很早就流行着一个说法,谁要检测自己的肺活量有多大,那他先拿一张刚出版的《路山日报》对着脸低头猛吸,然后观察周围之人有无闻到异味,如有,则需按此法加强锻炼,如无,则证明此人乃超人。因此,不仅各种层次的读者难以忍受这样的“味道”,就连报社里的编辑、记者、部主任甚至副社长、副总编们也都这样。...
Adventures and Lettersby Richard Harding DavisEDITED BYCHARLES BELMONT DAVISCONTENTSCHAPTERI. THE EARLY DAYSII. COLLEGE DAYSIII. FIRST NEWSPAPER EXPERIENCESIV. NEW YORKV. FIRST TRAVEL ARTICLESVI. THE MEDITERRANEAN AND PARISVII. FIRST PLAYSVIII. CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAIX. MOSCOW, BUDAPEST, LONDONX. CAMPAIGNING IN CUBA, AND GREECEXI. THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WARXII. THE BOER WAR...