'If—' by Rudyard Kipling takes the reader through some ways in which they can rise above adversity within everyday life.
第1章 THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KINGBY RUDYARD KIPLING(1) The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow.I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy.I have stil...
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E-text prepared by S.R.Ellison, Charles Aldarondo, Tiffany Vergon, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team INDIAN TALES BY RUDYARD KIPLING CONTENTS “The Finest Story in the World” With the Main Guard Wee Willie Winkie The Rout of the White Hussars At Twenty-two The Courting of Dinah...
if you believe the rats you can see rather than the model you’ve imagined. Kipling’s physician-astrologer changed his model, in his superstitious way, to meet reality. In the end that’s not superstition.Even the silliest model can approximate reality if you throw it away when it fails ...
He was put to bed and tended by the Chaplain,who knew something of medicine;and Lispeth waited outside the door in case she could be useful.She explained to the Chaplain that this was the man she meant to marry;and the Chaplain and his wife lectured her severely on the impropriety of...
byBro. Rudyard KIPLING First published on THE BUILDER, March 1922. I WAS buying a canary in a birdshop when he first spoke to me and suggested that I should take a less highly coloured bird. "Colour's all in the feeding," said he. "Unless you know how to feed 'em, it goes. You...
The Story of the Gadsby by Rudyard Kipling Preface Poor Dear Mamma The World Without The Tents of Kedar With Any Amazement The Garden of Eden Fatima The Valley of the Shadow The Swelling of Jordan Preface To THE ADDRESS OF CAPTAIN J. MAFFLIN, Duke of Derry’s (Pink) Hussars. DEAR MAFF...
Kipling had lost his dearly loved son in World War 1, and a precious daughter some years earlier. He was a drained man in 1919, and England, with which he identified intensely, was a drained nation. Though he was no atheist, was in fact a Christian of an eccentric sort, Kipling seems...