The Human Machine
Category: Author:阿诺德.本涅特 Arnold Bennett
An idea that can transform a man, both within and without. The author's got an amazing way of saying things. A must read for anyone not in complete control of their self .
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Category: Author:阿诺德.本涅特 Arnold Bennett
An idea that can transform a man, both within and without. The author's got an amazing way of saying things. A must read for anyone not in complete control of their self .
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Category: Author:L. T. Meade
"A Very Naughty Girl" is written in the moralistic style of the early nineteen hundreds. The Wynfords of Wyndford Castle are forced to welcome a sixteen year old Evelyn into their home. She is the niece of Squire Wynford and the heiress of the Wynford estate.
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Category: Author:Sarah Cory Rippey
When Honor Bright went to live in the country the very first thing he asked for was some real live geese, to join the chickens, and the pussy, and the rabbits already on the farm."Will you remember to feed them every day, son, if I get you a pair?" asked his father."Yes, papa," said the little boy. "Honor bright!"
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Category: Author:novel
The “Boys’ Foot-race” at the great games of Olympia, celebrated now for the one hundred and eleventh time since the epoch of Cor?bus, has just been run, and the victor is about to receive his crown of wild olive. The herald proclaims with a loud voice, “Charidemus, son of Callicles of Argos, come forward, and re...
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Category: Author:novel
I fear I must trouble my reader with some few details as to the early life of Miss Mackenzie,—details which will be dull in the telling, but which shall be as short as I can make them. Her father, who had in early life come from Scotland to London, had spent all his days in the service of his country. He became a clerk in Somerset Hous...
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Category: Author:novel
They were talking about old days and old ways and all the changes that have come on London in the last weary years; a little party of three of them, gathered for a rare meeting in Perrott’s rooms.
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Category: Author:novel
Marjorie was a feast for beauty-loving eyes as she sat on the wide stone edge of the silver-spraying fountain with its musical murmur of water splashing into a white marble basin. The mannish cut of her gray knickered riding clothes merely made her look more than ever like a little girl. From under her little round gray hat with its bi...
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Category: Author:novel
It was absolutely impossible. Twenty-five chess masters from the world at large, foregathered in Boston for the annual championships, unanimously declared it impossible, and unanimity on any given point is an unusual mental condition for chess masters. Not one would concede for an instant that it was within the range of human achieveme...
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Category: Author:novel
EVERY art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. But a certain difference is found among ends; some are activities, others are products apart from the activities that produce them.
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Category: Author:novel
This was Trollope's first published novel, which he began in September 1843 while he was staying in the village of Drumsna, County Leitrim, Ireland and completed by June 1845. However, it was not published until 1847.
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