James Otis The Pre-Revolutionistby John Clark RidpathGreat Americans of HistoryBY JOHN CLARK RIDPATH, LL.D. AUTHOR OF A "Cyclopaedia of Universal History," "Great Races of Mankind," "Life and Times of William E. Gladstone," etc., etc.THE CHARACTER OF JAMES OTIS BY CHARLES K. EDMUNDS, Ph.D.WITH AN ESSAY ON THE PATRIOT BY G. MERCER ADAM Late Editor "Self-Culture" Magazine, Etc., Etc.TOGETHER WITH ANECDOTES, CHARACTERISTICS, AND CHRONOLOGYNear the northeast corner of the old Common of Boston a sec
Over the Teacupsby Oliver W. HolmesPREFACE.The kind way in which this series of papers has been received hasbeen a pleasure greater than I dared to anticipate. I felt that Iwas a late comer in the midst of a crowd of ardent and eagercandidates for public attention, that I had already had my day, andthat if, like the unfortunate Frenchman we used read about, I had"come again," I ought not to surprised if I received the welcome of...
中国:选择效率还是选择就业2002年06月17日 09:50主持人:会当凌绝顶,一览众山小。圣凯诺·世纪大讲堂。如果我问大家说,高效率的结果是什么?大家一定会说是高效益。那如果我问你,它还有一个结果是什么呢,可能大家回答不出来,其实就是更高的失业率。那今天主持人阿忆就给大家请来了,北京大军经济观察研究中心的主任仲大军先生,由他给我们带来一场精彩的讲演报告,报告的名字是"中国:选择效率还是选择就业"。好,我们现在鼓掌欢迎仲先生。其实我跟大军先生是好朋友,我们第一次相识是1989年,13年前,后来我对您在学术上的认识呢,是因为1997年偶然看到了您的两个短篇文章,我觉得您很有眼力,这个短篇呢,一个是叫《告别短缺经济》,一个叫《迎接微利时代》,突然我发现有人说到,我们中国已经很快经过了卖方市场,变成了买方市场,听到了一个词汇"买方市场"。后来,同样在1997年的10月份,我们又听到了"微利",就是以...
二十年前,我在一家英国船舶公司做摄影师并因此得以周游世界,从那时起,异国旅行就实在让我着迷。我尤其渴望到那些在未来岁月中将成为新闻热点的国家去旅行,这会让你对你所读到的新闻更感兴趣。于是,在1989年我很兴奋能有机会同我二十岁的儿子一起到中国作了两个星期的旅行。我们从香港飞到北京,那些仰慕已久的风景名胜真是令人心旷神怡:天安门广场和毛主席纪念堂,紫禁城和长城。我们飞到西安看兵马俑,到桂林沿着美丽的漓江逆流而上。我们都觉得上海充满诱惑,因为正是在这里自由企业开始繁荣。中国正开始了它历史上充满迷人色彩的时代。尽管仍然在计划经济的严格控制之下,但是中央政府正在考虑向更为资本化社会演进的可能性。那里的人民同样令人着迷。变化正在孕育之中,尤其是上海。...
by Ernest HemingwayFlyleaf:In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," _For Whom the Bell Tolls_. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal o
楔子 世人都讨厌狐狸精,因为狐精性淫。但如果人自己没有欲望,又岂会受之诱惑?说到底,人只是为自己开脱罢了。 其实狐精那东西,痴得很。不过知晓的人,鲜少。 山中老僧说这番话时,他豆蔻有余的弟子——戒痴,手抓一个白面馒头,坐在对面的门槛上,听得忘了饿。 正午过后,戒痴趁师父小憩,跑下山,来到河边,一眼就发现了树荫下,闭目打坐,手持拂尘的少年。 戒痴到了跟前,袖子一抹光头上的汗珠,气喘吁吁道,“玄灵,我师父说,狐狸精都是好的。呼呼……还有,杀生是不对的。” 玄灵睁开眼,黑漆漆的眸子倒映出人时,幽幽一弯,“你怎么才来?”长长的睫羽在白皙胜雪的脸颊上,留下小小扇骨般的阴影,“我等你好久,口诀都已背了五遍。”...
Lectures XVI and XVIIMYSTICISMOver and over again in these lectures I have raised points andleft them open and unfinished until we should have come to thesubject of Mysticism. Some of you, I fear, may have smiled asyou noted my reiterated postponements. But now the hour has comewhen mysticism must be faced in good earnest, and those brokenthreads wound up together. One may say truly, I think, that...
THERE ARE NO GUILTY PEOPLEIMINE is a strange and wonderful lot! Thechances are that there is not a single wretchedbeggar suffering under the luxury and oppressionof the rich who feels anything like as keenly as Ido either the injustice, the cruelty, and the horrorof their oppression of and contempt for the poor;or the grinding humiliation and misery whichbefall the great majority of the workers, the realproducers of all that makes life possible. I havefelt this for a long time, and as the year
头顶上有风吹过,寂寞星光笔直地坠落。像你的脸,似从今以后不再出现。森可的吉普车停在无人经过的路边。我熟悉的深绿色,我坐惯的右边位置的车门上不知道什么时候掉了一块好大的漆,看起来丑陋极了,但因着他的性格,长久地注视,竟觉生出了美感。是和森可一样无法控制的放纵。夕阳把光辉涂抹在公路上,像浓烈的油画。我坐在公路旁的护拦上,摇着腿。森可在路的那一端抽烟。他看起来有一点烦躁,又显得享受,好像在等待一个好东西。过了一阵,远处开来一辆吉普,旧的,坐着一群男男女女。女孩子都涂着令人惊诧的眼影,裸露在空气中的肩膀,脖子上系着细细的颜色艳丽的带子,细细的腰肢摇摆在晚风中。车子在他们的欢呼和笑声中停在森可前面。一个染了发的女孩子率先跳下车,冲向森可。她烫过的头发在奔跑的速度里泛成波浪,涌向森可。她拦腰抱住他,森可转过来紧紧抱住她的肩膀。然后他们一群人开始尖叫。...
The Red One, and Othersby Jack LondonContents:The Red OneThe HussyLike Argus of the Ancient TimesThe PrincessSTORY: THE RED ONETHERE it was! The abrupt liberation of sound! As he timed it withhis watch, Bassett likened it to the trump of an archangel. Wallsof cities, he meditated, might well fall down before so vast andcompelling a summons. For the thousandth time vainly he tried to...
A Complete Account of the Settlementby Watkin TenchPREFACEWhen it is recollected how much has been written to describe the Settlement of New South Wales, it seems necessary if not to offer an apology, yet to assign a reason, for an additional publication.The Author embarked in the fleet which sailed to found the establishment at Botany Bay. He shortly after published a Narrative of the Proceedings and State of the Colony, brought up to the beginning of July, 1788, which was well received, and
《让海为我们洗涤》作者:玛瑙--正文 第一章 夕阳中的云朵晚唐代宗宝应年间,完全平定了延续七年零三个月的安史之乱。但是,经过这次战乱,唐朝元气大伤,由强盛转为衰落。东有藩镇割据,西有吐蕃侵拢,北有回纥以马匹高价交换的困难局面。代宗李豫十分信奉佛教,允许寺院占有许多良田美宅,国家财政经济每况愈下,民不聊生,威震四海的李唐盛世渐渐走到了尽头,在风雨飘渺中苟延残存。近日,天气阴霾,代宗的心情也和天气一样阴郁,常常孤身独处,心中不时地感叹大唐曾经的威名远播,曾经的怀柔四海,怀念儿时的无忧无虑的皇子生活,被爷爷玄宗抱在膝上逗玩的情景,还似昨日历历在目,自从安禄山几个造反后,大唐陷入了多事之秋,平定了内乱,又有外番来袭,朝廷整日纷争不堪,先帝又受惊而亡,无论是朝廷国事,还是李氏皇室都受到了严重的打击。代宗的多方努力都没有起到转折性的效果,心下颓废,不禁唉叹道,“再也不似从前了,...