I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence. ~Frederick Douglass A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. ~Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe, 1928 Self-respect is something that o...
Shakespeare's presence is felt from the very beginning in Leon Forrest's first novel, whose narrator concludes the opening paragraph with the announcement that his father "steeled me with Frederick Douglass and Shakespeare." The Shakespe... P Erickson - Palgrave Macmillan US 被引量: 0发表: 20...
Intercalary: Inserted out of the common order to preserve the equation of time, as the twenty-ninth of February in a leap year is an intercalary day. ~A Dictionary of the English Language, by Robert Gordon Latham, founded on that of Dr. Samuel Johnson, as edited by H. J. Todd, 1866 ...
单击单词卡可翻转 👆 Title: My Bondage, My FreedomAuthor: Frederick DouglassSignificance: Showing he has compassion for the slave owners too. 单击单词卡可翻转 👆 1 / 20 单词卡 学习 测试 配对 创建者 betsylittle17 此学习集的词语(20) "The first step, in the wrong direction, was the vio...
70. “I was obsessed with everything and anything; I wanted to learn everything, to read everything, to do everything. I was constantly on sensory overload. I’d hoard dozens of books in my second-grade cubby, and literally try to read two at a time, side by side.” ...