类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The windows rattled ominously as the first vibration from the cannon shook the school.It was Tuesday, the Fourth of August, 1914.The master laid down his book and rose. His shoulder crooked forward threateningly....
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简介： Finnagle's Law shows that many times we don't get the effect we planned on. But ... there's an inverse to that famous law, too.... The IWC program was a newscast by Bill Howard, and the news was particularly vicious that night.Bill, his big homely fa...
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简介： It is well to remind ourselves, from time to time, that Ethics is but another word for righteousness, that for which many men and women of every generation have hungered and thirsted, and without which life becomes meaningless....
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简介： Arcadians, metaphysicians, and all adorers of the past are cursing every day and every hour the modern mania of comparing human things to living beings and call for anathemas against this absurd and sacrilegious profanation of the man-God. Comparativ...
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简介： Eternal peace is a chimera. Whatever pains we may take to avoid war, there always comes a moment when tradition and interest, passion and affection clash and bring to pass the shock which we desired to avoid, a shock which, in the conditions within w...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Boots! he roared, for the second time. His wife, opening the kitchen door, looked in, and surveyed him.If I have to order you, said Mr. Baynes, speaking with great distinctness, to come and take off my boots again, I shall dock half a crown off your...
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简介： This book is in one sense a companion of my Caesars Conquest of Gaul; and much that was written in the preface of that volume is equally applicable here. The last three chapters of Part I, and the later articles in Part II, are intended to do for Bri...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The big round moon looked in at the window, for the curtain had not been drawn, and it made a picture of the window on the wall opposite, and showed the pattern on the paper; nosegays of roses, tied with blue ribbon; roses and knots of blue ribbon; l...
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简介： The question of a final criterion for the appreciation of art is one that perpetually recurs to those interested in any sort of aesthetic endeavor....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： On a cloudy December morning a gentleman, two ladies, and a boy stepped down from the express train at a station just above the Highlands on the Hudson. A double sleigh, overflowing with luxurious robes, stood near, and a portly coachman with difficu...
