End NotesNOTE TO CHAPTER I.Note A.-The Ranger or the Forest, that cuts theforeclaws off our dogs.A most sensible grievance of those aggrieved times were theForest Laws. These oppressive enactments were the produce ofthe Norman Conquest, for the Saxon laws of the chase weremild and humane; while those of William, enthusiastically attachedto the exercise and its rights, were to the last degreetyrannical. The formation of the New Forest, bears evidence...
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关注中国民间财富第一次大规模的转移2003、2004两年,中国民营企业界发生了两起最悲情也是最轰动的财富继承事件。2003年1月22日上午11时40分许,中华全国工商联合会第九届执委会副主席、时任山西海鑫钢铁公司董事长兼总经理的李海仓,在山西省运城市闻喜县东镇遭枪杀,经抢救无效死亡,时年47岁。一年多之后,均瑶集团创始人、董事长王均瑶因癌症医治无效,于2004年11月7日在上海病逝,年仅38岁。这两个优秀的创业者在壮年时突然之间撒手人寰,各自在身后留下了多达40多个亿的资产。笔者分别见证了这两次著名的财产继承的全过程,并先后采访了财富的继承者—李兆会(李海仓之子)和王均金、王均豪兄弟(两者均为王均瑶的弟弟)。...
她走在街上,满怀激情地幻想着自己成了剧中的角色;一整段的忧郁或快乐的独白脱口而出——生活比戏剧更叫人惊叹,她心花怒放……每一天,她都在憧憬,她渴望被发现,也试图利用各种机会将自己点亮,会有更多人认识她、记住她、欣赏她乃至迷恋她;这是她对自己人生的一个期待…… 嘉宝,一个曼妙绝伦的名字。从最淫荡的妓女到最高贵的女王,她演绎不同身份、不同性格的女性,以其冷峻娇美、楚楚动人的神态和细腻逼真、荡气回肠的表演,被美国影评界称做“好莱坞有史以来最伟大的女性”,同时也是好莱坞乃至世界电影有史以来最神秘的女性。很多人以为她是天使,是祈祷美丽的对象。她因在美国好莱坞现身为全世界的人们所认识和铭记,而最早有幸拥有她、发现她的是瑞典人——瑞典是嘉宝的故乡。 她喜欢对人们讲述她做过的梦 瑞典地处北欧,偏于寒冷,常年阴雨连绵,时有狂烈风暴发生。除了和挪威接壤,周边便是湛蓝的海...
第一章 在躺到铺得整整齐齐的床上之前,死者先脱下夹克,摘下领带,挂在门边的椅了上,然后解开鞋带,脱了鞋子放在椅子下,换穿黑色的皮拖鞋。他吸了三支有滤嘴的香烟,将烟捻熄在床边小桌上的烟灰缸里后,他在床上躺好,把子弹射进了自己的嘴里。 他把自己弄得面目全非。 离他最近的邻居是一个因为去年猎麇鹿而臀部受伤,所以提前退休的陆军上尉。他在出了意外之后患上失眠症,常常夜里自己坐着玩扑克牌。那天他才把牌拿出来,就听到墙的另一边传来枪声,于是马上打电话报警。 两名警察接到无线电通知,破门而入,时间是三月七日凌晨三点四十分,当时床上的男人已死亡三十二分钟之久。警察没有多久就弄清了案情,几乎可以确定死者是死于自杀。...
TIMOLEON411?-337 B.C.by Plutarchtranslated by John DrydenIT was for the sake of others that I first commenced writingbiographies; but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to itfor my own; the virtues of these great men serving me as a sort oflooking-glass, in which I may see how to adjust and adorn my own life.Indeed, it can be compared to nothing but daily living and associating...
The White Mr. Longfellowby William Dean HowellsWe had expected to stay in Boston only until we could find a house in OldCambridge. This was not so simple a matter as it might seem; for theancient town had not yet quickened its scholarly pace to the modern step.Indeed, in the spring of 1866 the impulse of expansion was not yetvisibly felt anywhere; the enormous material growth that followed thecivil war had not yet begun. In Cambridge the houses to be let were few,...
仿佛受到主人心绪的感染,两匹疾驰的马放慢了脚步。远处,闪现出一望无际的蔚蓝色的湖面,远远的波光之上,朦胧地矗立着一座青山,山上飞下九条雪白的溪涧,宛如九条美丽的发辫,在水天之间轻盈地飘舞。“我回来了!我的苍梧湖!我的九嶷山!”子唯的眼睛湿润了。他,私自出逃的南华国太子,在两年之后终于回到了自己的国土。要不是在南海的奇妙岛上遇到那只长着三个头、六条尾巴的怪鸟,他和贴身仆人离忧恐怕还在海外漂流呢。那个岛是羽民国的首都所在地,却仿佛是全世界的商业中心。华族人,巴族人,离耳人,朝鲜人,倭国人,虎首鸟足、专门在岛上森林里捕食蝮蛇巨蟒的黑人、身材像巨树的大人国人,腰别长剑、衣冠楚楚、说话细声细气、举止彬彬有礼的君子国人,双耳挂蛇、双手操蛇、以杂耍跳舞算命求雨谋生的雨师妾国人,长得像猿猴、全身漆黑如木炭、边走边喷火焰的餍火国人,长着尖尖的鸟嘴、背着一对大翅膀、却不能飞翔只能当...
THE HAUNTED HOTELA Mystery of Modern Veniceby Wilkie CollinsTHE FIRST PARTCHAPTER IIn the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a Londonphysician reached its highest point. It was reported on goodauthority that he was in receipt of one of the largest incomesderived from the practice of medicine in modern times....
作品简介本书首次揭示了中国企业20多年来普遍存在的10大经典问题,并对这些问题做了认真详细的梳理和深入透彻的分析,以原创性和极具震撼的思想力量,为本土企业家和管理者回归理性正本清源。适用于全国各行业、各层次管理人员的培训;特别适合用于企业家和管理者、各高校管理专业的教师、EMBA和MBA;同时也是中国管理问题研究者和对本土企业发展感兴趣的广大社会读者之最佳参考读物。在中国经济持续发展和企业快速成长的过程中,优秀的管理学者功不可没。20多年来,他们以崇高的使命感和事业心,引进和传播国外先进的管理理念、技能和方法;在企业实践中摸爬滚打;与企业家和管理者肝胆相照;为中国企业今天的成长壮大立下了汗马功劳。本丛书旨在为学贯中西、长期服务于企业,并对中国管理与实践做出认真思考和理论贡献的杰出管理学者,提供原创性和创新性观点的出版平台。我们期待着在本丛书的作者中,产生出中国未来的管理大师。...
THE ENCHANTED CANARYIONCE upon a time, in the reign of King Cambrinus, there lived atAvesnes one of his lords, who was the finest manby which Imean the fattestin the whole country of Flanders. He ate fourmeals a day, slept twelve hours out of the twenty-four, and the onlything he ever did was to shoot at small birds with his bow andarrow.Still, with all his practice he shot very badly, he was so fat andheavy, and as he grew daily fatter, he was at last obliged to give up...
【书名】迷路【作者】席绢【书籍简介】据说,她很难追,尤其讨厌商界男人,目标只锁定学者、律师、医师、设计师等特定职业。 她的确美得无可挑剔,家世又和他匹配得上,虽然不学无术,但他还是追求了她,也得到了她……明知他是她最讨厌的所谓商人,却仍是傻傻的禁不起他的诱惑—— 他英挺贵气、精明干练,是所有女人都会爱上的优质男人,她以为他们会成为一对恩爱的绝配夫妻……但,他们在七夕情人节当晚分手了,他提出的,说是他们不适合。该死的不适合!这是什么状况?才刚分手,她就迫不及待找着了替代他的男人,还……那么亲昵!怪的是,他心里竟泛起了一阵酸……莫非,他这次的判断错误?她其实不是他所认为的言语乏味、不学无术的千金小姐?她是故意误导他?...