The Battle of Trafalgar can claim to be one of the most known of the great human events. In Men of Honour, Adam Nicolson takes one of the greatest identifiable heroes in British history, Horatio Nelson, and examines the broader themes of heroism, violence and virtue. Trafalgar gripped the ...
A dozen years later, coming to another crossroad in my life, I took a path as director of the Chamber of Commerce in Lawrence, Massachusetts. This was a couple of decades after the City lost its manufacturing base, with thousands of good-paying jobs and its economic health, following the ...
The Battle of Trafalgar can claim to be one of the most known of the great human events. In Men of Honour, Adam Nicolson takes one of the greatest identifiable heroes in British history, Horatio Nelson, and examines the broader themes of heroism, violence and virtue. Trafalgar gripped the ...
Reaching this impasse alone had already lost him nearly £10,000, equivalent to a relative cost of £1.3 million in 2020. Now heavily in debt to Adam Jellicoe, Cort agreed to take Jellicoe’s son, Samuel, into partnership as security.Footnote170 Later, Cort’s son Richard would claim ...
The vast majority of conservatives, with their alleged constitutional originalism, claim to venerate the founders. But there's a problem: The signers of the Declaration of Independence and framers of the Constitution were, if not exactly creatures of the Enlightenment like Voltaire or Hume,...
Because when the time is right, success will greet you, not because you are deserving of it or have earned it, but because you have pursued it long enough to know it is your right to claim. 我会让你好好思考,别因为实现目标的时间太长而失望。别纠结当下情况是否代表着进步,正如竹子的故事一...
9 (idm 习语) give/lend `colour to sth make sth seem true or probable 使某事物显得真实或可信: The scars on his body lent colour to his claim that he had been tortured. 他说他受过折磨拷打, 从他身上的伤疤看来倒也可信. lose colour => lose. nail one's colours to the mast => nail ...