The Silver Arrow
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简介:And so it happened that Sir Walter Raleigh, the graceful, the gracious, the generous, had spread his cloak in the pathway of Queen Elizabeth and had been taken into her especial favor....
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简介:And so it happened that Sir Walter Raleigh, the graceful, the gracious, the generous, had spread his cloak in the pathway of Queen Elizabeth and had been taken into her especial favor....
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简介:A PREFACE is the place where an author usually apologizes to the public for what he is about to inflict. Such being the case, I hasten to state that I am only jointly responsible for this aggregation ...
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简介:This is going to be the craziest story I ever wrote. But anyway every word of it is trueexcept a few small words. Even the punctuation is true. But I have to admit the story is crazy. Its the craziest...
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简介:Any people who may happen to have read the story of Wilful, the Conceited Pig, will recollect how he had called up his friend, Miss Peck, one night, from the henhouse, where there had been a great dis...
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简介:Having, as I thought, completed this bookbar the Preface, which is, of course, always the last chapterI sent it in manuscript to an old friend of mine for his opinion....
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简介:The author is aware that he is dipping his net into a stream already darkened by too much ink. The fact that there are so many books on the religion of Abraham Lincoln is a chief reason why there shou...
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简介:He was a big man, broad of shoulder, slim of hip. His Stetson was crimped Texas-style, over slate-gray eyes that impassively had seen much good and more evil in their twenty-six years....
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简介:From steaming lowlands down by the equator, where monstrous orchids blow, where beetles big as mice sit on the tent-ropes, and fireflies glide about by night like little moving stars, the travelers we...
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简介:The object of these pages* is not to defend the intellectual accuracy of Atheism (which could not be attempted in this brief space), the object is to explain its case, to vindicate its moral rectitude...
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简介:If among the twenty-two works with which Sadi enriched the literature of his country the Gulistān rank first in popularity, the Bustān (lit. Garden) may justly claim equal precedence in point of inter...