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I don’t think this is a linear process. I may feel despair this afternoon. I may be snacking tonight and every night this week. That’s OK. I just found it interesting that maybe there is a tiny mental shift. Maybe. Leave a comment Are you shopping these days? Online I mean. I ...
To the strength and fierceness of barbarians,they added a contempt for life, which wasderived fromawarm persuasion oftheimmortality and transmigration of the soul. Decebalus, the Dacian king,approved himself a rival not unworthy ofTrajan; nor didhe despair绝望/失去信心 of his own and the public...
Towards the end of 1927, Virginia Woolf wrote to her close friend and sometime lover, Vita Sackville-West: Yesterday morning I was in despair … I couldn’t screw a word from me; and at last dropped my head in my hands: dipped my pen in the ink, and wrote these words, as if auto...
the blood in the arenas and the wondrous aromas of the lavish meals served to the imperial family. As a consequence, you can also feel the despair and despondency of the poor and unrepresented populace – the plebs and the slaves – who are ignored and left to suffer famine and plague by...
³¹If we takehim at his wordhere, however,heindeed desiresto be nothing more than anotherpragmatic historian in the fashion ofPolybius writing for theπολιτικοίin the firstplace.³²To be sure, he mentionsthevoluptasof hisreadersand his own pleasurein dealingwith the remote...
speedilybrokedown,theyarmedthedespairoftheAssyrianswith themeansofopposingasuddendelugetotheprogressofan invadingarmy.Tothesoi1andclimateofAssyria,naturehad deniedsomeofherchoicestgifts,thevine,theolive,andthe fig-tree;*butthefoodwhichsupportsthelifeofman,and particularlywheatandbarley,wereproducedwithinexhausti...
The word 'social promotion' in this text means() A.the help given by society to those kids who lag behind B.the practice of passing on students who fail to a higher grade C.the practice of rewarding top students D.the effort to promote equality of all students, regardless of their rac...
There is complete despair. Everybody is preparing to fly, unless some such incident occurs as Pompey effecting a junction of his forces with those of Domitius. But I think we shall know all about it in two or three days. I send you a copy of Cae...
14 To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they addeda contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion ofthe immortality and transm 48、igration of the soul. 15 Decebalus,the Dacian king, approved himself a rival not unworthy of Trajan;nor did he despair of his own and ...