Kindly hand me down the letter K of the American Encyclopaedia which stands upon the shelf beside you. Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong...
With the 2020 presidential race underway and a possible impeachment of President Trump on the horizon, 2019 has been an action-packed year so far in American politics. Here to discuss five new political books that break down how we got to where we are is CNBC editor-at-largeJohn Harwood, ...
I went about, however, with a heart which was full of forebodings. “On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad that he should go...
“One day—it was in March, 1883—a letter with a foreign stamp lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. ‘From India!’ said he a...
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN“A Black Mark on the Escutcheonof Our Country”It is sad beyond words. They are so wrong, so terriblywrong, not only about Robert, but in their concept of what isrequired of wise public servants. . . .DAVID LILIENTHALOPPENHEIMER RETURNED TO OLDEN MANOR tired and irritab...
In two weeks time, I’ll be done proofreading my novel, having finished editing the story back in April. So far, the beta readers I’ve sent it out to have sent some very kind things. I’ll have to remember them when the rejection letter begins coming in when I send it out to li...
2) Arthur Russell – “The Letter” (from Love Is Overtaking Me) –“Charactistically hard to classify. Letter pretty seamlessly combines a drum machine with a flipped down beat to a personal acoustic ballad. The fat synths and minimal, but direct, lyrics allow for multiple styles to recombi...
RJ Meyer-Lee - 《Chaucer Review》 被引量: 4发表: 2010年 Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards...
The book, beautifully laid out, is broken into sections (Woodstock / Town Hall / In the Studio / Bob & Joan / Early ’65 / Forest Hills) by lyrics letterpressed onto heavy matt paper, with Kramer’s excellent narrative set in typewriter, an era-specific evocation of the prevailing technol...
44. There is no mention of being tipsy in Tao’s “Letter to Master Yan and Oth-ers” that is quoted here. “A recluse of old” is literally “a sage from the time of Fuxi,” a common epithet for a recluse. 45. According to tradition, Kāśyapa Mātaṅga came from India with...