As for my ambitious hopes regarding the Irish peerage, I began, on my return, to find out that I had been led wildly astray by that rascal Lord Crabs; who liked to take my money, but had no more influence to get me a coronet than to procure for me the Pope's tiara. The Sovereign...
“In the Freethought Now article‘What is a woman?’,author Kat Grant struggles at length to define the word, rejecting one definition after another as flawed or incomplete. Grant finally settles on a definition based on self-identity: ‘A woman is whoever she says sheis. This of course i...
20. The purpose of the investigation only became clear when… 新编英语语法教程 第25讲 练习参考答案 Ex. 25A 1. more brightly 2. cooler 3. coldest 4. deepest 5. higher, highest 6. more seriously 7. bigger, highest 8. softer, softest 9. harder 10. harder, hardest 11. earlier 12. ...
ORIGINALLY THE CANON meantthe choice of books in our teaching institutions, and despite the recent politics of multiculturalism, the Canon’s true question remains: What shall the individual who stilldesiresto read attempt to read,this late in history?Mallarmé’s grand line—“the flesh is sad,...
December 25 also becameassociated with the god Mithra…. During the fourth century, during emperor Constantine’s reign, it was the Catholic Church that decided to make Jesus’ birthday a formal holiday and set that date for December 25, centuries after Jesus was said to have lived…. ...
Of the new books on the war,The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade(Harper Collins, 2014) by Philip Jenkins is a singular and fascinating look at how theological language was invoked by all the warring powers—Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Muslim—to buttres...
1.Pursue your object, be it what it will, steadily and indefatigably.不管追求什么目标,都应坚持不懈。 2.Live beautifully, dream passionately, love completely.活要活得美好,梦要梦得热烈,爱要爱得完整。 3.A strong man will struggle with the storms of fate.;Thomas Addison强者能同命运的风暴抗争。
You’ve heard those phrases before; you’ll hear them again. You may even believe them. But I’m gonna shove my elbow down the throat of the next person who says that within earshot ofmoiself. Because, guess what? This *is* whoweare – at least, nearly half of the voting “we.”...
Whether this touch of mystery added charm to the paintings; or whether there was already forming in him what afterward became an instinctive resistance to many of the dictates of his age; certain it is that, even after he had been privileged to admire the stupendous works of the Caracci at...
Guillaume also became a canon, ultimately of Reims (in 1337) where he spent the latter part of his life, writing and composing, and supervising the compilation of his manuscripts and scores. A prolific, disciplined and talented poet and composer, he also penned several prose works and ...