Speaking of OperationsSpeaking of Operationsby Irvin S. CobbRespectfully dedicated to two classes:Those who have already been operated on Those who have not yetbeen operated on1- Page 2-Speaking of OperationsNow that the last belated bill for services professionally rendered hasbeen properly paid and properly receipted; now that the memory of theevent, like the mark of the stitches, has faded out from a vivid red to abecoming pink shade; now that I pass a display of adhesive tape in a drug-...
On the Frontierby Bret HarteCONTENTSAT THE MISSION OF SAN CARMELA BLUE GRASS PENELOPELEFT OUT ON LONE STAR MOUNTAINAT THE MISSION OF SAN CARMELPROLOGUEIt was noon of the 10th of August, 1838. The monotonous coast linebetween Monterey and San Diego had set its hard outlines againstthe steady glare of the Californian sky and the metallic glitter ofthe Pacific Ocean. The weary succession of rounded, dome-likehills obliterated all sense of distance; the rare whaling vessel orstill rarer trader, drifting past, saw no change in these rustyundulations, barren of distinguishing peak or headland, and bald ofwooded crest or timbered ravine. The withered ranks of wild oats...
SanditonJane Austen- Page 2-ELECBOOK CLASSICSebc0050. Jane Austen: SanditonThis file is free for individual use only. It must not be altered or resold.Organisations wishing to use it must first obtain a licence.Low cost licenses are available. Contact us through our web site(C) The Electric Book Co 1998The Electric Book Company Ltd20 Cambridge Drive, London SE12 8AJ, UKwww.elecbook- Page 3-Jane Austen: Sanditon 3SanditonChapter I. En route to the coast, Mr and Mrs Parker’s...
Brother Jacobby George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans]CHAPTER IAmong the many fatalities attending the bloom of young desire, thatof blindly taking to the confectionery line has not, perhaps, beensufficiently considered. How is the son of a British yeoman, whohas been fed principally on salt pork and yeast dumplings, to knowthat there is satiety for the human stomach even in a paradise ofglass jars full of sugared almonds and pink lozenges, and that thetedium of life can reach a pitch where plum-buns at discretion ceaseto offer the slightest excitement? Or how, at the tender age when aconfectioner seems to him a very prince whom all the world mustenvywho breakfasts on macaroons, dines on meringues, sups on...
Manaliveby G. K. ChestertonTable of ContentsPart I: The Enigmas of Innocent SmithI. How the Great Wind Came to Beacon HouseII. The Luggage of an OptimistIII. The Banner of BeaconIV. The Garden of the GodV. The Allegorical Practical JokerPart II: The Explanations of Innocent SmithI. The Eye of Death; or, the Murder ChargeII. The Two Curates; or, the Burglary ChargeIII. The Round Road; or, the Desertion ChargeIV. The Wild Weddings; or, the Polygamy ChargeV. How the Great Wind went from Beacon HousePart I...
ESSAYS, Political, Economical and Philosophical. Volume 1.by Benjamin RumfordContentsDedicationFirst EssayAn account of an Establishment for the Poor at MunichSecond EssayOn the Fundamental Principles on which General Establishments forthe Relief of the Poor may be formed in all Countries.Third EssayOf Food and Particularly of Feeding the Poor.Fourth EssayOf Chimney Fire-places with proposals for improving them to saveFuel; to render dwelling-houses more Comfortable and Salubrious,and effectually to prevent Chimnies from Smoking.Fifth EssayA Short Account of several public institutions lately formed inBavaria. together with the Appendix to the First Volume.DedicationTo his most serene highness THE ELECTOR PALATINE reigning duke of bavaria. etc. etc. etc....
一九年前，我从部队复员，回到了家。用爹的话讲，在外四年，白混了：既没入党，也没提干，除了腮帮上钻出些密麻的胡子，和走时没啥两样。可话说回来，家里也没啥大变化。只是两个弟弟突然蹿得跟我一般高，满脸粉刺，浑身充满儿马的气息。夜里睡觉，爹房里传来叹气声。三个五尺了五高的儿子，一 下子都到了向他要媳妇的年龄，是够他喝一壶的。那是一九七 八年，社会上刚兴高考的第二年，我便想去碰碰气。爹不同意，说：“兵没当好，学就能考考上了?再说……”再说到镇上的中学复习功课，得先交一百元复习费。娘却支持我的想法：“要是万一……”爹问：“你来时带了多少复员费?”我答：“一百五。”爹朝门框上啐了一口浓痰：“随你折腾去吧。就你那钱，家里也不要你的，也不给你添。考上了，是你的福气；考不上，也省得落你的埋怨。”就这样，我来到镇上中学，进了复习班，准备考大学。...
燕双飞 BY:nuonuo序岁入寒冬，忽地一场瑞雪，纷纷扬扬下了几日，便使得满眼素白。雪光初霁，鬼府巍峨的屋宇耸立在雪光中，显得威严肃穆。南鬼府，北神宫，武林中人无人不知，谁人不晓。几百年来，鬼府神宫一直统御着南北武林，分庭对抗。而近些年来却是鬼府颇为引人注目。其一，话说十七年前，年届五旬的鬼府府主与天下第一美人联姻。老夫少妻，却因鬼府府主天纵英才，倒也是羡煞旁人的恩爱夫妻。只可惜红颜薄命，这天下第一美人在三年后因产子而逝，使人感慨。其二，便是这鬼府府主与这天下第一美人所生之子。传言鬼府少主容颜绝美，天下无双，纵然是其母再生也要逊上三分颜色，只是生来娇弱，怕也是红颜命薄。鬼府府主一世英雄，老来得子也免不了儿女情态。将这小娃儿视若掌上明珠，宠溺非常。这鬼府少主倒也非恃宠而骄之辈，聪敏过人不说，而且琴棋书画样样精通，文才风流，见者莫不心生喜爱，恨不得是自家孩儿。万般皆好，只是...
AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONSby Adam Smith1776BOOK THREEOF THE DIFFERENT PROGRESS OF OPULENCE IN DIFFERENT NATIONSOf the Natural Progress of OpulenceTHE great commerce of every civilised society is thatcarried on between the inhabitants of the town and those of thecountry. It consists in the exchange of rude for manufacturedproduce, either immediately, or by the intervention of money, orof some sort of paper which represents money. The countrysupplies the town with the means of subsistence and the materialsof manufacture. The town repays this supply by sending back apart of the manufactured produce to the inhabitants of the...
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A BURLESQUE BIOGRAPHYTwo or three persons having at different times intimated that if Iwould write an autobiography they would read it when they got leisure,I yield at last to this frenzied public demand and herewith tendermy history.Ours is a noble house, and stretches a long way back into antiquity.The earliest ancestor the Twains have any record of was a friend ofthe family by the name of Higgins. This was in the eleventh century,when our people were living in Aberdeen, county of Cork, England.Why it is that our long line has ever since borne the maternalname (except when one of them now and then took a playfulrefuge in an alias to avert foolishness), instead of Higgins,is a mystery which none of us has ever felt much desire to stir....
Passages from an Old Volume of Lifeby Oliver W. HolmesPAGES FROM AN OLD VOLUME OF LIFE.A COLLECTION OF ESSAYSBY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMESCONTENTS:BREAD AND THE NEWSPAPERMY HUNT AFTER "THE CAPTAIN"THE INEVITABLE TRIALCINDERS FROM ASHESTHE PULPIT AND THE PEWBREAD AND THE NEWSPAPER.(September, 1861.)This is the new version of the Panem et Circenses of the Roman populace. It is our ultimatum, as that was theirs. They must have something to eat, and the circus-shows to look at. We must have something to eat, and the papers to read.Everything else we can give up. If we are rich, we can lay down our carriages, stay away from Newport or Saratoga, and adjourn the trip to Europe sine die. If we live in a small way, there are at least new dresses and bonnets and every-day ...
“商女不知亡国恨，隔江犹唱后庭花。”1937年春天，苏北海城，琴海书寓。这一晚，是京洛最后一次踏进琴海书寓的门槛。琴海书寓内照例灯火辉煌，无数涂脂抹粉的妖冶女子，在夜里展现她们的风情。京洛乘坐的人力三轮车刚刚停稳，他便一个箭步跳下来，一块大洋落到了车夫的掌心。在车夫弯腰一迭声的道谢声中，京洛已经冲进了琴海书寓的大门。倚门招摇的女子嘻嘻笑着，伸手拍去，却只触到京洛一个衣角，京洛已经穿过庭院，直往后院而去。琴海书寓内照例是每日的景象，女人们陪侍在男人身边，笑得风情万种，男人们揽着女人，大多已醉眼朦胧。唱小曲的小姑娘面无表情站在厅房中央，口中传出的曲儿却如莺啼般清脆婉转。厅堂四壁宫灯高悬，奔走的女人们身着红红绿绿的衣衫，光影将她们映衬得艳光袭人。暖暖荒靡的气息飘荡在厅堂的每一处。京洛今晚无心在厅堂停留，他穿越前面的庭院时，有相识的朋友远远冲他挥手打招呼，他也佯作不见。此刻...
［留言］ 留言………………………………………………………………留言 佚 名 小姨多鹤 …………………………………………………………严歌苓 ［汉诗］ 诗九首 ……………………………………………………………潞 潞 十二属相图 ………………………………………………………刁永泉 致冰雪中的烈焰 …………………………………………………黄亚洲等 ［天下］ 在镇里飞 …………………………………………………………塞 壬 ［报告］ 苗乡汉子…………………………………………………………覃仁岗 赵华锋 留言 这个女子名叫竹内多鹤或朱多鹤，她只能承受她的同胞带给她的命运，除了生或死、爱或不爱，她其实别无选择；但她的男人张俭、张俭的妻子小环，他们可以选择。他们在漫长岁月中在历史风雨中经常面临艰难的选择，他们在选择中考验自己的心、考验人之为人的道德。 ——“信”是远方...
OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCESDavid Hume1742Nothing requires greater nicety, in our enquiries concerninghuman affairs, than to distinguish exactly what is owing to, and what proceeds from ; nor is there anysubject, in which an author is more liable to deceive himself byfalse subtilties and refinements. To say, that any event isderived from chance, cuts short all farther enquiry concerningit, and leaves the writer in the same state of ignorance with therest of mankind. But when the event is supposed to proceed fromcertain and stable causes, he may then display his ingenuity, in...
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牛撇捺 人的一生是寻梦的一生。梦有千种万种。 “万般皆下品，唯有读书高。”虽然此论曾遭到过严厉的批判，但它是中国几千年社会人们的价值尺度、追求目标与心理写照，这是毋庸置疑的。 中国有千年的科举制度史。对于这一制度，褒贬不一。褒之者以为，以考试的方法取仕，为天下的读书人提供了平等的进入仕途的竞争机会，是一种先进的制度，它不但为中国封建社会的发展作出了贡献，而且为西方公务员制度的确立奠定了基础。贬之者以为，科举制度将千千万万学子引向了独木桥，是封建统治阶级对知识分子阶层的奴化、控制与戗害，是腐朽落后的。不论如何看待中国的教育史与科举制，人们似乎尚未找到比学校教育（包括私塾教育）更好的教育方式，也未找到比考试更好的选拔优秀人才的方式。所以，自上世纪七十年代末重新运用的高考制度，虽然被轻蔑着、鄙薄着、批评着、诟病着、非议着，却难以被取代甚或取缔。 我们这一代...
幕后三重奏-机构投资秘密规则申购新股的“战略投资者”为何如何走运？上市公司的巨额资产为何要托管给证券公司？二级市场做庄究竟有哪些秘密规则？最顶尖的操盘手，功夫更在盘外。股市确实是遍地黄金，但越是看来简单的巨大利益，越是隐藏着秘密规则。无论中外，股市中的公平永远只是市场大多数人的追求，要想得真正得到公平，必须熟知秘密规则。笔者与一位证券业内人士的秘密访谈。访谈为时三天，并根据谈话内容整理而成本文。按照笔者对提供线索者保密的约定，被访者不允许录音，同时要求把语气进行虚拟。留下“买路钱”的战略投资者笔者：企业发行新股时经常有战略投资者介入，他们是由谁来选？谁来定呢？被访者：上市公司定。笔者：怎么个选法儿？被访者：学问就在这里边。一般来说，选择权在上市公司的董事会，而董事会谁说了算？也就一个人顶多两个人。这两个人什么身份？你猜都猜得到。笔者：成为战略投资者的具体条件是什么...