I lost myself, with a great deal of pleasure, among several thickets and bushes that were filled with a great variety of birds, and an agreeable confusion of notes, which formed the pleasantest scene in the word to one who had passed a whole winter in noise and smoke. The...
When I saw one too ambitious of court favor, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, this man gives too much for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly emp...
CHAPTER THIRTEEN“The Coordinator of Rapid Rupture”Now I could see at firsthand the tremendous intellectual power of Oppenheimer who was the unquestionedleader of our group. . . . The intellectual experience wasunforgettable.HANS BETHEOPPENHEIMER’S STEADY AND OFTEN BRILLIANT contributions at the “u...
and demanded it of her goodness and self-command as such. But Mrs. Norris wanted to persuade her that Fanny could be very well spared--_she_ being ready to give up all her own time to her as requested-- and, in short, could not really be wanted or missed. ...
10 Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan. 11 The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not ...
THE CLERGY, THE FORESTS, LIBERTY The first law of every being, is to preserve itself and live. You sow hemlock, and expect to see ears of corn ripen.--_Machiavelli_. The great personage continued. One could see that he knew his subject. He proceeded to expound the following great ...
His secretary stopped taking notes to gape at me.他的秘书停止了记录,目瞪口呆地望着我。 He was not the type to wander round gaping at everything like a tourist.他不是那种像个游客似的四处闲逛、对什么都好奇张望的人。 30reprobation
What do you mean by flopping yourself down and praying agin me?’ 20 - `I was not praying against you; I was praying for you.’ 21 - `You weren’t. And if you were, I won’t be took the liberty with. Here! your mother’s a nice woman, young Jerry, going a praying ...
liberty that historians have taken from the time of Herodotus to put into the mouths of the persons of my narrative speeches that I did not myself hear and could not possibly have heard.I have done this for the same reasons as the historians have, to give liveliness and verisimilitude to ...
10) Will you please give me some one or five dollars notes? I need some small change. 4. Mock Touring(模拟观光) Terra Cotta Warriors Xi’an, once the capital of eleven Chinese dynasties, is famous throughout the world for life-sized terra-cotta warriors and horses. They have...