THE SCARECROW of OZDedicated to"The uplifters" of Los Angeles, California, ingrateful appreciation of the pleasure I have derivedfrom association with them, and in recognition oftheir sincere endeavor to uplift humanity throughkindness, consideration and good-fellowship. They arebig menall of themand all with the generoushearts of little children.L. Frank Baum...
生于乱世 少年弃文习武序(1)徐 迅施琅(1621—1696年),字尊候,号琢公,福建晋江衙口人。生于天启元年(1621年),卒于康熙三十五年(1696年)。早年,是郑芝龙的部将,顺治三年(1646年)随郑芝龙降清。不久又加入郑成功的抗清义旅,成为郑成功的得力助手、郑军的重要将领,积极参预海上起兵反清。后因微嫌与郑成功发生矛盾,施琅因父、弟被郑成功诛杀,再次降清。他先后担任清朝的副将、总兵、水师提督等。从康熙三年(1664年)开始,施琅就建议“当乘其(指台湾郑氏政权)民心未固、军情尚虚”之时,进军澎湖、台湾,使“四海归一”。康熙二十二年(1683年),施琅率领清军渡海东征,一举攻克澎湖,招降台湾郑氏集团。他还针对当时清廷有人提出“宜迁其人,宜弃其地”的主张,上疏吁请清廷在台湾屯兵镇守、设府管理,力主保留台湾、守卫台湾。...
Christian Scienceby Mark TwainCHRISTIAN SCIENCEPREFACEBOOK I of this volume occupies a quarter or a third of the volume,and consists of matter written about four years ago, but not hithertopublished in book form. It contained errors of judgment and of fact.I have now corrected these to the best of my ability and later knowledge.Book II was written at the beginning of 1903, and has not until nowappeared in any form. In it my purpose has been to present a character-...
Susy, A Story of the Plainsby Bret HarteCHAPTER I.Where the San Leandro turnpike stretches its dusty, hot, andinterminable length along the valley, at a point where the heat anddust have become intolerable, the monotonous expanse of wild oats oneither side illimitable, and the distant horizon apparently remoterthan ever, it suddenly slips between a stunted thicket or hedge of"scrub oaks," which until that moment had been undistinguishable...
如果把一支蜡烛放进全黑的屋子,黑暗瞬间消失,屋里有了光明。但是,增加十支、百支或千支蜡烛,房间无非是变得越来越亮。但决定性的变化是第一支蜡烛,是它冲破了黑暗。下面的内容也许将成为燃亮你人生的第一支蜡烛。一、人的改变就在一瞬间人要改变自己,是一个渐进的、缓慢的过程,还是一种突变呢?很多人的答案是:人的改变是渐进的、缓慢的。如果你也抱有这种观念,我相信你的改变是很困难的。但哲学不是告诉我们事物的变化是由量变到质变吗?比如一个人要戒烟,如果你总认为戒烟是一个渐进的缓慢的过程,要逐渐的戒,我相信你永远也戒不了烟;你只有某天感觉再抽下去会得癌症,肺会完全烂掉,你才会痛下决断,马上采取戒烟措施,你也才有可能戒掉烟。...
The Hunchback of Notre Dameby Victor HugoPREFACE.A few years ago, while visiting or, rather, rummaging about Notre-Dame, the author of this book found, in an obscure nook of one of the towers, the following word, engraved by hand upon the wall:~ANArKH~.These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic caligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a h
1. First SightThis was the time of day when I wished I were able to sleep.High school.Or was purgatory the right word? If there was any way to atone for my sins, thisought to count toward the tally in some measure. The tedium was not something I grewused to; every day seemed more impossibly monotonous than the last.I suppose this was my form of sleep—if sleep was defined as the inert statebetween active periods.I stared at the cracks running through the plaster in the far corner of the cafet