The Cask
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简介：Mr. Avery, managing director of the Insular and Continental Steam Navigation Company, had just arrived at his office. He glanced at his inward letters, ran his eye over his list of engagements for the...
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简介：The original form of this book was a lecture on the William Vaughn Moody foundation at the University of Chicago, delivered on the sixth of February, 1918. A portion of it was subsequently printed in ...
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简介：From Bocca di Magra to Bocca dArno, mile after mile, the sandy beaches smoothly, unbrokenly extend. Inland from the beach, behind a sheltering belt of pines, lies a strip of coastal plainflat as a sli...
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简介：When it happened, it happened unnoticed. Though it affected all chordata on Earth (with a possible exception to be noted in a moment), nobody knew of it, not even the Prince of all chordata, Man himse...
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简介：The announcement was made by Nick Carters valet, Joseph, who threw open the door of his masters study with a gesture as nearly approaching a flourish as any in which he ever permitted himself to indul...
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简介：The Board of Lady Managers of the Worlds Columbian Commission, having been created and authorized by the concurrent action of Congress and the Columbian Commission, to take entire charge of the intere...
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简介：It was a saying of Dryden that Anything, though ever so little, which a man speaks of himself, in my opinion, is still too much. This depends upon what a writer says. No man is required to give an opi...
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简介：In proceeding to trace the development and characteristics of Puritanism in an English colony, I beg to remark that I write, not as an Englishman, but as a Canadian colonist by birth and life-long res...
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简介：The Truly Clever know enough to make books of a country by a few days of Pullman and hotelor even by skimming the public library at home, without the bother and expense of travel at all....
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简介：The older I grow, Mr. E. V. Lucas has said, the less, I find, do I want to read about anything but human beings.... But human beings, as human beings, are not enough; they must, to interest me, have q...