The High Price of Bullionby David Ricardo1810The High Price of Bullion, a Proof of the Depreciation of BankNotes.by David RicardoLondon: Printed for John Murray, 32, Fleet-Street; And Sold byEvery Other Bookseller in Town and Country1810IntroductionThe writer of the following pages has already submitted somereflections to the attention of the public, on the subject of...
THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMSThe summer moon, which shines in so many a tale, was beaming overa broad extent of uneven country. Some of its brightest rays wereflung into a spring of water, where no traveller, toiling, as thewriter has, up the hilly road beside which it gushes, ever failedto quench his thirst. The work of neat hands and considerate artwas visible about this blessed fountain. An open cistern, hewnand hollowed out of solid stone, was placed above the waters,...
Donal Grantby George MacDonaldCHAPTER I.FOOT-FARING.It was a lovely morning in the first of summer. Donal Grant wasdescending a path on a hillside to the valley belowa sheep-trackof which he knew every winding as well as any boy his half-mile toand from school. But he had never before gone down the hill withthe feeling that he was not about to go up again. He was on his wayto pastures very new, and in the distance only negatively inviting.But his heart was too full to be troublednor was his
Appendix to History of Friedrich II of Prussiaby Thomas CarlyleThis Piece, it would seem, was translated sixteen years ago;some four or five years before any part of the present HISTORY OFFRIEDRICH got to paper. The intercalated bits of Commentary were,as is evident, all or mostly written at the same time:these also,though they are now become, in parts, SUPERFLUOUS to a reader thathas been diligent, I have not thought of changing, where notcompelled. Here and there, especially in the Introducto
天成二年(公元927年)三月十六日,后唐都城洛阳夹马营的一座府宅内,香烟缭绕。缭绕的香烟中,观世音菩萨的佛像显得庄重而神秘。佛像并不大,但一双佛眼却慈善而凝重。佛眼透过袅娜的香烟,笼罩着那位双膝跪地的祈祷者。祈祷者缓缓地抬起了头。这是一个中年男人。看他的面貌,似乎比观世音还要亲善。圆圆的脸,温柔的鼻子,眉宇间透着一团和气,怎么看怎么像是一位乐善好施者。而实际上,他却是一位能征惯战的将军,姓赵,名弘殷,时任后唐飞捷指挥使。赵家祖居涿郡(今北京市西南),是世世代代的官宦之家。赵弘殷的曾祖赵脁,曾在唐朝先后任过永清、文安、幽都令;祖父赵珽,担任过御史中丞一职;父亲赵敬,历任营州、蓟州、涿州刺史。赵弘殷靠着一身过硬的骑马射箭功夫,曾带着五百人在黄河边上救过后唐庄宗李存勖一命,故而博得了一个飞捷指挥使的武职。此职是统帅皇帝亲军的,可见李存勖对他的器重和信任。虽然,李称帝之...
“全不知”游绿城[苏]尼·诺索夫 著 昌茂译[作品简介] 《“全不知”游绿城》又名《小无知和朋友们的历险记》或《小无知游绿城》,是“全不知”的三部曲的第一部。讲述了花城的一群可爱的小矮子乘坐热气球的冒险经历。 全不知是一个做事冒失,喜欢不懂装懂的小矮子,他的朋友万事通发明了一个气球,并带着大家乘气球去外面的世界冒险。由于热气球漏气,全不知和朋友们落到了绿城,那里住着一群可爱的女孩子。全不知自称是自己发明了气球,赢得了女孩子们的青睐。 但不久,谎言被拆穿,全不知也成了大家嘲笑的对象。这时,善良的女孩蓝眼睛给了他鼓励和帮助,让全不知重新回到了伙伴们的身边。当他回到花城的家里之后,也开始学着认真看书写字了,因为他答应了要给蓝眼睛写信。...
The Soul of the Far Eastby Percival LowellContentsChapter 1. IndividualityChapter 2. FamilyChapter 3. AdoptionChapter 4. LanguageChapter 5. Nature and ArtChapter 6. ArtChapter 7. ReligionChapter 8. ImaginationChapter 1. Individuality.The boyish belief that on the other side of our globe all things are of necessity upside down is startlingly brought back to the man when he first sets foot at Yokohama. If his initial glance does not, to be sure, disclose the natives in the every-day feat of sta
川上袜子 ★1990年毕业于浙江美术学院本科(现名中国美术学院) ★19911995年旅居泰国曼谷。 其间参加亚洲的各种艺术展览, 作品为韩国(亚细亚)文化艺术研究会收藏。在泰国的《世界日报》连载漫画《曼 谷开门》,在《新中原报》连载漫画《轻松族》。1995年在曼谷开个人画展 ★1996年开始留学日本 ★1997年毕业于日本大阪国际学友会日本语学校 ★1998年在法国巴黎ACCORD ECOLE DE LANGUE学校短期留学 ★1999年回日本,考入日本国立大阪教育大学硕士班,专修绘画雕塑。作品入选日本全国水彩联盟展。 ★2001年从日本国立大阪教育大学毕业, 获硕士学位。 ★漫画《茶包物语》《樱花三贱客》在东京《中文导报》连载。 ★现居日本。 O十分有智慧 (满分是一百分) O会多种语言 (和日本人说英语,和法国人说日语,和泰国人说法语,原则是不和他们说他们的本国语,以免漏馅) O爱旅行...
New Yorkby James Fenimore CooperTHE increase of the towns of Manhattan, as, for the sake ofconvenience, we shall term New York and her adjuncts, in all thatcontributes to the importance of a great commercial mart, rendersthem one of the most remarkable places of the present age. Withinthe distinct recollections of living men, they have grown from acity of the fifth or sixth class to be near the head of all thepurely trading places of the known world. That there are...
poor. The rich one was a goldsmith and evil-hearted. The poor onesupported himself by making brooms, and was good and honorable. Hehad two children, who were twin brothers and as like each other astwo drops of water. The two boys went in and out of the rich house,and often got some of the scraps to eat. It happened once when thepoor man was going into the forest to fetch brush-wood, that he saw abird which was quite golden and more beautiful than any he had everchanced to meet with. He pic