As to distractions, the modern child is surrounded by them; and it appears to be one of the main intentions of the present system of instruction not to leave to a child any moments of leisure for the indulgence of the imagination. But I am not offering the example of my childhood for ...
In this, how could I have acted if I had not been a Consul? And how could I have been a Consul, unless I had maintained that course of life, even from childhood, which raised [150]me from the order of knights, in which I was born, to the very highest station. You cannot ...
Tang Yu bought a house next to Tang Xin's home, and this coincidence raised questions for Tang Xin. Tang Yu had to reveal the truth. Upon hearing that Tang Xin wanted to buy a house, he called his cousin involved in real estate business, requesting two adjacent houses. The cousin, awar...
Though Deya was raised to believe her parents died in a car accident, a secret note from a mysterious, yet familiar-looking woman makes Deya question everything she was told about her past. As the narrative alternates between the lives of Deya and Isra, she begins to understand the dark...
Raised in Los Angeles, Roswell is a 6th generation Californian. He graduated from UCLA Film School and is a member of the Producer's Guild of America. Dante Spinotti, ASC, AIC Director of Photography Dante Spinotti is an acclaimed cinematographer who has been nominated for 2 Academy Awards for...
Before my wife turned vegetarian, I’d always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way. What a great opening line! Tells you all you need to you know about our narrator, Mr. Cheong. Like the wife he described, he himself is a man both mediocre and middling by choice and...
“Nay; I can’t take thee with me to-day. I am going to Squire Ayton’s, and from there to Rudby’s, and very like as far as Ormesby and Pickering.” “Then you will not be home to dinner?” “Not I. I shall get my dinner somewhere.” “Can I come and meet you?”...
Raised THE SECOND COMING THE SECOND COMING OF THE LORD THE SECRET OF LIFE The Sick Of The Palsy Healed THE SIGN OF THE PROPHET JONAH the son of man the spirit of truth The Spiritual Body the spiritual mind THE STREAM OF PROVIDENCE THE SWEDENBORGIAN CHURCH THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD ...
I saw Maritzburg forty years later, when its people seemed a mass of Asiatics, the immigrant wave from India that first awoke South Africa to the "Asiatic peril." Maritzburg in 1867 no doubt appeared singularly quiet, but to those who lived there the whole place, as my mother has told...
Opposite of the views of Anne’s proponents were those of her detractors such as Nicholas Sander. He deduced that Elizabeth “under the pressure of the fear … that because she was the issue of a marriage condemned by the Church and the sovereign Pontiff, a doubt might be raised touching ...