致内地读者得怀着感恩的心情,在因缘际会下,我第一本在内地发行的书,是关于快乐/不快乐的课题,跟内地朋友分享自己这几年的体会。当前大势。不失为反思“拥有与失去”的黄金机会,能借此想到拥有的代价、失去的回报,内心得以从外在环境与际遇中释放,堪称千金不换。过去写下不少勾引别人眼泪的歌词,有时会反省自己是不是美化了伤感,有时又觉得让人落泪,可得到发泄,但愿也不算是作孽、遗害人间。有时看到内地网民在在线讨论我最伤感的歌词,看着看着,不期然想到所谓悲伤,不把它写得透彻见血见肉见骨,不把“苦”解剖,也难以找出解药,这样看,也算符合科学发展观吧。如果多难能兴邦,多了解苦,查找苦的成因,大抵亦能兴建乐的心灵国度。...
前 言:大国的兴衰 一流国家在世界事务中的相对地位总是不断变化的。主要原因有二:一是各国国力的增长速度不同;二是技术突破和组织形式的变革,可使一国比另一国得到更大的优势。例如,公元1500年以后问世的帆动力远洋炮舰和大西洋贸易的繁荣,就使欧洲各国受益不同,一些国家的发展速度比另一些国家快得多。同样,后来开发的蒸汽动力及其依赖的煤炭和金属资源,大大增强了一些国家的力量。一些国家的生产力一旦得到提高,便自然能比较容易地在平时承受大规模扩军备战的负担,能在战时保持和供养庞大的陆军和舰队。这种说法听起来似乎具有浓厚的重商主义色彩,但财富通常是支撑军事力量的基础,而要获取和保卫财富又总是需要军事力量。然而,如果一个国家把它的很大一部分资源不是用于创造财富,而是用于军事目的,那么,从长远来看,这很可能会导致该国国力的削弱。同样,如果一个国家在战略上过分扩张(如侵占大片领土和进...
Masterman Readyby Captain Marryat( Frederick Marryat )Chapter IIt was in the month of October, 18, that the Pacific, a large ship, was running before a heavy gale of wind in the middle of the vast Atlantic Ocean. She had but little sail, for the wind was so strong, that the canvas would have been split into pieces by the furious blasts before which she was driven through the waves, which were very high, and following her almost as fast as she darted through their boiling waters; sometimes heavi
Philosophy of Natureby HegelTable of ContentsPreliminary§ 192 Nature has presented itself as the idea in the form of otherness.§ 193 Hence nature exhibits no freedom in its existence, but only necessity and contingency.§ 194 Nature is to be viewed as a system of stages, in which one stage necessarily arises fromthe other.§ 195 Nature is, in itself a living whole.§ 196 The idea as nature can be named mathematics, physics, and physiology....
Chitra, a Play in One Actby Rabindranath TagoreTOMRS. WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODYPREFACETHIS lyrical drama was written about twenty-five years ago. It isbased on the following story from the Mahabharata.In the course of his wanderings, in fulfilment of a vow ofpenance, Arjuna came to Manipur. There he saw Chitrangada, thebeautiful daughter of Chitravahana, the king of the country....
History Of The Mackenziesby Alexander MackenziePREFACETHE ORIGINAL EDITION of this work appeared in 1879, fifteen years ago. It was well received by the press, by the clan, and by all interested in the history of the Highlands. The best proof of this is the fact that the book has for several years been out of print, occasional second-hand copies of it coming into the market selling at a high premium on the original subscription price.Personally, however, I was never satisfied with it.
The Same being frequently applied to the present State and Affairs of Ireland.London, Printed for N. Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1662.by William Petty1662The PrefaceYoung and vain persons, though perhaps they marry not primarily and onely on purpose to get Children, much less to get such as may be fit for some one particular vocation; yet having Children, they dispose of them as well as they can according to their respective inclinations: Even so, although I wrote these sheets but to rid
《46.没 说 离 婚 不 能 爱》作者:晓叁[内容简介] 他们不是离婚了吗?怎么“前夫”老搞不清状况,天天与她共进午餐,跟别人介绍她是内人,放着大房子不住,跑来跟她挤间小公寓,甚至每天同床共枕,顺道来个热吻?!不过看到有男同事对她有意思,便威胁公司老板叫她回家吃自己,去找他理论,便撞见他正跟秘书玩亲亲,她是昏了头才会相信他说的屁话,总是在外和别的女人激情过后,再摸摸她的头说“我的心里只有你”,这种马改不了处处留情,她只好伤心离去,只是──才短短六年就让花心男变“和尚”,还说一切的改变都是为了她,拜托!怎么说她也是有志气的下堂妇,哪能随便哄哄就给他完美的Ending,更何况她现在还多了个小拖油瓶……...
“光有天赋不行。你还得是匈牙利人。” 罗伯特·卡帕的话《生活》周刊,1997年4月19日 1948年秋:在一架租借来的美式达科塔飞机的尾翼上,古老的匈牙利底色上新涂了一颗红星。罗伯特·卡帕看着底下花布片一样的农田,自封建时代以来,那些田地一直都没有发生过太大的变化。之后,他看到青年时代的河流,那就是多瑙河。几分钟后,他的飞机就在跑道上颠簸起来,滑向一栋弹孔累累的建筑,表情严肃的政府官员站在那里等他。 卡帕回到了阔别17年的家乡。他的感情错综复杂:有乡愁和强烈的好奇,同时也有担忧,不知道在这么一个新成立的国家会看到什么。所到之处,一定会有很多事物让他想起自己的以前:一个挤撞、挣扎、绝处逢生,最后功成名就的犹太小伙子。...
1788THE CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASONby Immanuel Kanttranslated by Thomas Kingsmill AbbottPREFACEThis work is called the Critique of Practical Reason, not of the pure practical reason, although its parallelism with the speculative critique would seem to require the latter term. The reason of this appears sufficiently from the treatise itself. Its business is to show that there is pure practical reason, and for this purpose it criticizes the entire practical faculty of reason. If it succeeds in t
POMPEY106-48 B.C.by Plutarchtranslated by John DrydenTHE people of Rome seem to have entertained for Pompey from hischildhood the same affection that Prometheus, in the tragedy ofAeschylus, expresses for Hercules, speaking of him as the author ofhis deliverance, in these words:-"Ah cruel Sire! how dear thy son to me!The generous offspring of my enemy!"...