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
The Wheels of Chanceby H. G. Wells [Herbert George]THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTER IN THE STORYI.If you (presuming you are of the sex that does such things)if you had gone into the Drapery Emporiumwhich is really only magnificent for shopof Messrs. Antrobus & Co.a perfectly fictitious "Co.," by the byeof Putney, on the 14th of August, 1895, had turned to the right-hand side, where the blocks of white linen and piles of blankets rise up to the rail from which the pink and blue prints depend, you might h
中华性文化博物馆的大门 古人说:“食、色性也。”这就是说,以饮食为基础的物质生活和以繁衍后代为目的的性生活是人类的两大基本生活需要,人类靠前者得以维持生存,靠后者得以繁衍后代。满足这两方面的基本生活需要是人的本能,也是动物的本能。人本来就是从动物进化来的,在人的身上还残留着动物的本性。 可是,即使在本能需要方面也不能简单地把人和动物画等号。人是高等动物,人是社会 化的动物,通过长期的进化,人在各个方面都发展到了动物所不能比拟的高度,在性方面也是如此。人类通过性的生理进化使生殖能力大大加强了;通过性的心理进化使性和爱情相互结合,使人类的性生活更加科学、健康;通过性的社会进化使千千万万人更加协调一致,朝幸福、美满的方向发展。 现代人的性生理进化基本稳定下来了,性的心理进化和社会进化,仍在不断地发展。 人是从动物进化而来的,但性交方式却和其他动物迥然不同。其他灵...
_New England Reformers__A Lecture read before the Society in Amory Hall,__on Sunday, 3 March, 1844_Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in NewEngland, during the last twenty-five years, with those middle andwith those leading sections that may constitute any justrepresentation of the character and aim of the community, will havebeen struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting....
The Pond in WinterAfter a still winter night I awoke with the impression that somequestion had been put to me, which I had been endeavoring in vain toanswer in my sleep, as what how when where? But there wasdawning Nature, in whom all creatures live, looking in at my broadwindows with serene and satisfied face, and no question on her lips.I awoke to an answered question, to Nature and daylight. The snowlying deep on the earth dotted with young pines, and the very slope...
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....
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1907-1910By Albert Bigelow PaineVOLUME III, Part 2: 1907-1910CCLVIHONORS FROM OXFORDClemens made a brief trip to Bermuda during the winter, taking Twichellalong; their first return to the island since the trip when they hadpromised to come back so soon-nearly thirty years before. They had beencomparatively young men then. They were old now, but they found thegreen island as fresh and full of bloom as ever. They did not find their...
The Mad Kingby Edgar Rice BurroughsPART IIA RUNAWAY HORSEALL LUSTADT was in an uproar. The mad king had es- caped. Little knots of excited men stood upon the street corners listening to each latest rumor concerning this most absorbing occurrence. Before the palace a great crowd surged to and fro, awaiting they knew not what.For ten years no man of them had set eyes upon the face of the boy-king who had been hastened to the grim castle of Blentz upon the death of the old king, his father....
《以前的事》 秋天的纪念合欢树(1)十岁那年,我在一次作文比赛中得了第一。母亲那时候还年轻,急着跟我说她自己,说她小时候的作文做得还要好,老师甚至不相信那么好的文章会是她写的。“老师找到家来问,是不是家里的大人帮了忙。我那时可能还不到十岁呢。”我听得扫兴,故意笑:“可能?什么叫可能还不到?”她就解释。我装作根本不再注意她的话,对着墙打乒乓球,把她气得够呛。不过我承认她聪明,承认她是世界上长得最好看的女的。她正给自己做一条蓝地白花的裙子。获奖之后,登门采访的记者就多。大家都好心好意,认为我不容易。但是我只准备了一套话,说来说去就觉得心烦。我摇着车躲出去,坐在小公园安静的树林里,想:上帝为什么早早地召母亲回去呢?迷迷糊糊的,我听见回答:“她心里太苦了。上帝看她受不住了,就召她回去。”我的心得到一点安慰,睁开眼睛,看见风正在树林里吹过。...
第一章 旦夕之间,情知对于生命的千般流转,尽须付与无尽的忍爱 深情即是一桩悲剧 必得以死来句读 你真是一个令人欢喜的人,你的杯不应该为我而空 ——简桢《四月裂帛》 1 她记忆中的冬天,雪是大地唯一的盛装。天寒地冻之中,散落在雪原上的黑帐篷是避难之地。煮茶的残火在昏暗的空间内闪烁微光,浓香气味随之蜿蜒弥漫开来,带来由食物所构成的最朴素的诱惑,和最原始的抚慰。外面是迷境一般的寒冷,黑帐篷的毡片因为雪积三尺而无法拉开。 卡桑。爷爷躺在卡垫上轻声唤她。 她在幼年时代,四季都能见到雪。即便六月,遇到天气突变,烈风还会裹挟着薄薄雪花四散而去。到了寒冬,一场大雪过后,望眼便是一片银白的天地。昏天暗地的风雪像是远古时代冰河期的封冻。草场的冻土层很快就僵硬了,从地底渗出寒气。...