A Complete Account of the Settlementby Watkin TenchPREFACEWhen it is recollected how much has been written to describe the Settlement of New South Wales, it seems necessary if not to offer an apology, yet to assign a reason, for an additional publication.The Author embarked in the fleet which sailed to found the establishment at Botany Bay. He shortly after published a Narrative of the Proceedings and State of the Colony, brought up to the beginning of July, 1788, which was well received, and
The Red One, and Othersby Jack LondonContents:The Red OneThe HussyLike Argus of the Ancient TimesThe PrincessSTORY: THE RED ONETHERE it was! The abrupt liberation of sound! As he timed it withhis watch, Bassett likened it to the trump of an archangel. Wallsof cities, he meditated, might well fall down before so vast andcompelling a summons. For the thousandth time vainly he tried to...
头顶上有风吹过,寂寞星光笔直地坠落。像你的脸,似从今以后不再出现。森可的吉普车停在无人经过的路边。我熟悉的深绿色,我坐惯的右边位置的车门上不知道什么时候掉了一块好大的漆,看起来丑陋极了,但因着他的性格,长久地注视,竟觉生出了美感。是和森可一样无法控制的放纵。夕阳把光辉涂抹在公路上,像浓烈的油画。我坐在公路旁的护拦上,摇着腿。森可在路的那一端抽烟。他看起来有一点烦躁,又显得享受,好像在等待一个好东西。过了一阵,远处开来一辆吉普,旧的,坐着一群男男女女。女孩子都涂着令人惊诧的眼影,裸露在空气中的肩膀,脖子上系着细细的颜色艳丽的带子,细细的腰肢摇摆在晚风中。车子在他们的欢呼和笑声中停在森可前面。一个染了发的女孩子率先跳下车,冲向森可。她烫过的头发在奔跑的速度里泛成波浪,涌向森可。她拦腰抱住他,森可转过来紧紧抱住她的肩膀。然后他们一群人开始尖叫。...
THERE ARE NO GUILTY PEOPLEIMINE is a strange and wonderful lot! Thechances are that there is not a single wretchedbeggar suffering under the luxury and oppressionof the rich who feels anything like as keenly as Ido either the injustice, the cruelty, and the horrorof their oppression of and contempt for the poor;or the grinding humiliation and misery whichbefall the great majority of the workers, the realproducers of all that makes life possible. I havefelt this for a long time, and as the year
楔子 世人都讨厌狐狸精,因为狐精性淫。但如果人自己没有欲望,又岂会受之诱惑?说到底,人只是为自己开脱罢了。 其实狐精那东西,痴得很。不过知晓的人,鲜少。 山中老僧说这番话时,他豆蔻有余的弟子——戒痴,手抓一个白面馒头,坐在对面的门槛上,听得忘了饿。 正午过后,戒痴趁师父小憩,跑下山,来到河边,一眼就发现了树荫下,闭目打坐,手持拂尘的少年。 戒痴到了跟前,袖子一抹光头上的汗珠,气喘吁吁道,“玄灵,我师父说,狐狸精都是好的。呼呼……还有,杀生是不对的。” 玄灵睁开眼,黑漆漆的眸子倒映出人时,幽幽一弯,“你怎么才来?”长长的睫羽在白皙胜雪的脸颊上,留下小小扇骨般的阴影,“我等你好久,口诀都已背了五遍。”...
Lectures XVI and XVIIMYSTICISMOver and over again in these lectures I have raised points andleft them open and unfinished until we should have come to thesubject of Mysticism. Some of you, I fear, may have smiled asyou noted my reiterated postponements. But now the hour has comewhen mysticism must be faced in good earnest, and those brokenthreads wound up together. One may say truly, I think, that...
by Ernest HemingwayFlyleaf:In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," _For Whom the Bell Tolls_. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal o
二十年前,我在一家英国船舶公司做摄影师并因此得以周游世界,从那时起,异国旅行就实在让我着迷。我尤其渴望到那些在未来岁月中将成为新闻热点的国家去旅行,这会让你对你所读到的新闻更感兴趣。于是,在1989年我很兴奋能有机会同我二十岁的儿子一起到中国作了两个星期的旅行。我们从香港飞到北京,那些仰慕已久的风景名胜真是令人心旷神怡:天安门广场和毛主席纪念堂,紫禁城和长城。我们飞到西安看兵马俑,到桂林沿着美丽的漓江逆流而上。我们都觉得上海充满诱惑,因为正是在这里自由企业开始繁荣。中国正开始了它历史上充满迷人色彩的时代。尽管仍然在计划经济的严格控制之下,但是中央政府正在考虑向更为资本化社会演进的可能性。那里的人民同样令人着迷。变化正在孕育之中,尤其是上海。...
中国:选择效率还是选择就业2002年06月17日 09:50主持人:会当凌绝顶,一览众山小。圣凯诺·世纪大讲堂。如果我问大家说,高效率的结果是什么?大家一定会说是高效益。那如果我问你,它还有一个结果是什么呢,可能大家回答不出来,其实就是更高的失业率。那今天主持人阿忆就给大家请来了,北京大军经济观察研究中心的主任仲大军先生,由他给我们带来一场精彩的讲演报告,报告的名字是"中国:选择效率还是选择就业"。好,我们现在鼓掌欢迎仲先生。其实我跟大军先生是好朋友,我们第一次相识是1989年,13年前,后来我对您在学术上的认识呢,是因为1997年偶然看到了您的两个短篇文章,我觉得您很有眼力,这个短篇呢,一个是叫《告别短缺经济》,一个叫《迎接微利时代》,突然我发现有人说到,我们中国已经很快经过了卖方市场,变成了买方市场,听到了一个词汇"买方市场"。后来,同样在1997年的10月份,我们又听到了"微利",就是以...
Over the Teacupsby Oliver W. HolmesPREFACE.The kind way in which this series of papers has been received hasbeen a pleasure greater than I dared to anticipate. I felt that Iwas a late comer in the midst of a crowd of ardent and eagercandidates for public attention, that I had already had my day, andthat if, like the unfortunate Frenchman we used read about, I had"come again," I ought not to surprised if I received the welcome of...
James Otis The Pre-Revolutionistby John Clark RidpathGreat Americans of HistoryBY JOHN CLARK RIDPATH, LL.D. AUTHOR OF A "Cyclopaedia of Universal History," "Great Races of Mankind," "Life and Times of William E. Gladstone," etc., etc.THE CHARACTER OF JAMES OTIS BY CHARLES K. EDMUNDS, Ph.D.WITH AN ESSAY ON THE PATRIOT BY G. MERCER ADAM Late Editor "Self-Culture" Magazine, Etc., Etc.TOGETHER WITH ANECDOTES, CHARACTERISTICS, AND CHRONOLOGYNear the northeast corner of the old Common of Boston a sec
The Soul of the Indianby Charles A. EastmanAn InterpretationBYCHARLES ALEXANDER EASTMAN(OHIYESA)TO MY WIFEELAINE GOODALE EASTMANIN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF HEREVER-INSPIRING COMPANIONSHIPIN THOUGHT AND WORKAND IN LOVE OF HER MOSTINDIAN-LIKE VIRTUESI DEDICATE THIS BOOKI speak for each no-tongued treeThat, spring by spring, doth nobler be,And dumbly and most wistfullyHis mighty prayerful arms outspreads,...
《黄花赋》作品相关 自序及书中精彩片段自序及书中精彩片段文/陕西石之轩一.从清末中日甲午之战后,中国的先知先觉者开始行动起来了,试图用各种方法来挽救这个古老的帝国免于沉亡。与此同时,知识分子在思想上刮起了一股旋风,西洋、东洋的维新思想、民主自由思想,共和理论,社会主义理论,无政府理论等等,这些人文思想的纷纷登陆和传播,将中国的知识分子及热血青年迅速的卷入了时代的浪潮里,从此时直到1949年,中国大地上思想的探索,主义的争斗,独裁与民主,争霸与统一,抗日的烽火,内战的硝烟,纷扰繁复、持续不断。在约半个多世纪的时空里,神州大地被迫经历一次次血与火的洗礼,血染南国,血污中原,血洒在太行与华北平原。...
《天池传说》作者:紫朱砂[正文:第一章 横空出世]在古老的长白山区,流传着一个美丽的传说,那是一段跨越三界的情缘,一段可歌可泣的爱情……在长白山天池池底,孕育着七颗宝珠,名为仙玥神珠。它们吸取天地之灵气,享日月之精华,内含无尽的能量与灵力,被视为仙家瑰宝。仙玥神珠每五千年成体,每五千年被送到天庭供给玉皇大帝、王母娘娘、如来佛祖、观音大士等众仙家享用。又是一个五千年,采珠仙子奉命驾云来到天池采珠。她单手一挥,顿时内池内五光升腾,七颗仙玥神珠依次被一股巨气托出,再一一被收入采珠仙子的篮子里。除了一颗月白色的神珠外,其余六颗各个晶莹剔透、光润动人。这颗月白色的神珠没有光泽,是个尚未成熟的神珠。仙界有规定,如果池底的神珠有尚未成熟者,可继续留在池底孕育知道成熟。这颗神珠居于其他六颗神珠之下,灵气精华逊于一筹,因此它虽在池底生长了五千年,但实际内力不过三千年。这颗神珠讨厌呆...
Personal Memoirs of P.H.Sheridan V2 of 2by Philip Henry SheridanVOLUME II.CHAPTER I.ORGANIZING SCOUTSMISS REBECCA WRIGHTIMPORTANT INFORMATIONDECIDETO MOVE ON NEWTOWNMEETING GENERAL GRANTORGANIZATION OF THE UNIONARMYOPENING OF THE BATTLE OF THE OPEQUONDEATH OF GENERAL RUSSELL--A TURNING MOVEMENTA SUCCESSFUL CAVALRY CHARGEVICTORYTHREELOYAL GIRLSAPPOINTED A BRIGADIER-GENERAL IN THE REGULAR ARMYREMARKS ON THE BATTLE....