VOLUME ICHAPTER ILord Angelo is precise; Stands at a guard with envy; Scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone. Measure for Measure.Scarcely had the Abbey Bell tolled for five minutes,and already was the Church of the Capuchins thronged with Auditors. Do not encourage the idea that the Crowd was assembled either from motives of piety or thirst of information. But very few were influenced by those reasons; and in a cit
A Confessionby Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyII was baptized and brought up in the Orthodox Christian faith.I was taught it in childhood and throughout my boyhood and youth.But when I abandoned the second course of the university at the ageof eighteen I no longer believed any of the things I had beentaught.Judging by certain memories, I never seriously believed them,...
THE STORY OF PRETTY GOLDILOCKSONCE upon a time there was a princess who was theprettiest creature in the world. And because she was sobeautiful, and because her hair was like the finest gold,and waved and rippled nearly to the ground, she wascalled Pretty Goldilocks. She always wore a crown offlowers, and her dresses were embroidered with diamondsand pearls, and everybody who saw her fell in love withher.Now one of her neighbors was a young king who was...
纪荣华独家授权( 感谢您的阅读。诚挚敬请您不吝赐教:8380808)20世纪90年代,在广袤的神州大地上刮起了一场风暴。这场风暴持续时间长达七年之久,不知给多少人带来激情与机遇,成了百万富翁;给多少家庭带来悲欢离合,甚至尸寒他乡……我亲历过这场风暴,忍不住将这场风暴还原于各位面前,只是想让与我有着同样经历、同样体会的人们找到知音、得到慰籍——要是苦难的人们没有比这更好的可以诉说的朋友的话。1Y城啤酒厂灌装车间机器隆隆作响,流水线上瓶瓶啤酒如赶着上班的人潮滚滚而来。我和一位中年妇女隔着输送带相向而立, 双手快捷地抓起沉甸甸的瓶子往木箱里装。我想到千手观音,想到了《摩登时代》中的卓别林,只是此时一点儿也不觉得好笑。我挥汗如雨,两只手都麻木了,一班下来,两个人居然装了800多箱19200多瓶啤酒。...
A Discourse on MethodDISCOURSE ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REASON, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCESby Rene DescartesPREFATORY NOTE BY THE AUTHORIf this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six Parts: and, in the first, will be found various considerations touching the Sciences; in the second, the principal rules of the Method which the Author has discovered, in the third, certain of the rules of Morals which he has deduced from th
Song and Legend From the Middle Agesby William D. McClintock and Porter Lander McClintockCONTENTS.I. FRENCH LITERATUREII. SPANISH LITERATUREIII. SCANDINAVIAN LITERATUREIV. GERMAN LITERATUREV. ITALIAN LITERATUREREADING LIST.Owing to the necessarily fragmentary character of the readings ofthis volume, it has seemed well to the editors to indicate a listof books for those who wish a wider reading In MediaevalLiterature. These books are all available and cheap....
The Rise and Progress of Palaeontologyby Thomas Henry HuxleyThat application of the sciences of biology and geology, whichis commonly known as palaeontology, took its origin in the mindof the first person who, finding something like a shell, or abone, naturally imbedded in gravel or rock, indulged inspeculations upon the nature of this thing which he had dug outthis "fossil"and upon the causes which had brought it intosuch a position. In this rudimentary form, a high antiquity may...
Chapter II of Volume IIAFTER a week spent in professions of love and schemes of felicity, Mr. Collins was called from his amiable Charlotte by the arrival of Saturday. The pain of separation, however, might be alleviated on his side, by preparations for the reception of his bride, as he had reason to hope that shortly after his next return into Hertfordshire, the day would be fixed that was to make him the happiest of men. He took leave of his relations at Longbourn with as much solemnity as be
BeowulfAnonymousTranlated by GummereBEOWULFPRELUDE OF THE FOUNDER OF THE DANISH HOUSELO, praise of the prowess of people-kingsof spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,we have heard, and what honor the athelings won!Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes,from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore,awing the earls. Since erst he layfriendless, a foundling, fate repaid him:for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve,till before him the folk, both far and near,...
Meditations on First Philosophyby Rene Descartes1641Prefatory Note To The Meditations.The first edition of the Meditations was published in Latin by Michael Soly of Paris "at the Sign of the Phoenix" in 1641 cum Privilegio et Approbatione Doctorum. The Royal "privilege" was indeed given, but the "approbation" seems to have been of a most indefinite kind. The reason of the book being published in France and not in Holland, where Descartes was living in a charming country house at Endegeest nea