类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： IN Sailing Ships and their Story I endeavoured to trace the evolution of the ship from the very earliest times of which we possess any historical data at all down to the canvas-setting craft of to-day. In Fore and Aft I confined myself exclusively to...
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简介： I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your desires as indispensable orders. Ungracious then as the task may be, I shall recall to view those scandalous stages of my life, out of which I emerged, at length, to the enjoyment of e...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： H.G. Wells
简介： The buying of orchids always has in it a certain speculative flavour. You have before you the brown shrivelled lump of tissue, and for the rest you must trust your judgment, or the auctioneer, or your good-luck, as your taste may incline. The plant m...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? This question, which at first sight might not seem difficult, is really one of the most difficult that can be asked. When we have realized the obstacles in...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： A writer of many books once said to me that he regretted every preface he had written. Seeing that I have the highest respect for his talents, I am constrained to take to heart the moral, which (particularly in a book on proverbs) would seem to be le...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Before entering into the subject of the setting of Objects for the Microscope, the student must be convinced of the necessity of cleanliness in everything relating to the use of that instrument. In no branch is this more apparent than in the preparat...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Wilson Renshaw, the most brilliant member of the House of Commons, was on the verge of a complete breakdown at the end of the memorable Session of 1930, a session in which the marshalled forces of Socialism, allied with the insurgent women of England...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Sure enough, a lurid, red sun was setting in a bank of heavy, black clouds, which had already obscured his lower half, and the surface of which was flecked with little, white, fleecy dots, moving rapidly, which looked as if the port-holes of some gia...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： In January 1914 I visited Petersburg and Moscow for a couple of weeks; in September 1920 I was asked to repeat this visit by Mr. Kameney, of the Russian Trade Delegation in London. I snatched at this suggestion, and went to Russia at the end of Septe...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The explanations given in the following pages, in which I have sought to show the manner in which an ice age is being brought about, is an extension of a treatise on The Cause of Warm and Frigid Periods, which I published in a small edition in 1894....
