10 THE IMPORTANCE OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS THE IMPORTANCE OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS The rise of modern science may perhaps be considered to date as far back as the time of Roger Bacon, the wonderful monk and philosopher of Oxford, who lived between...
09 The flight of youth The Flight of Youth by Richard Henry Stoddard There are gains for all our losses. There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again. We are strong...
08 an Hour Before Sunrise an Hour Before Sunrise An hour before sunrise in the city there in an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets, which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the...
07 on Etiquette ON ETIQUETTE Etiquette to society is what apparel is to the individual. Without apparel men would go in shameful nudity which would surely lead to the corruption of morals; and without etiquette society would be in a pitiable state an...
06 The House-Cricket Crickets are fond of kitchens and bakers' ovens, on account of their perpetual warmth. Tender insects that live abroad either enjoy only the short period of one summer, or else doze away the cold uncomfortable months in profound...
05 Reading Good Books Devote some of you leisure, I repeat, to cultivating a love of reading good books. Fortunate indeed are those who contrive to make themselves genuine book-lovers. For book-lovers hve some noteworthy advantages over other people....
04 Trees Trees 树 (1) I think that I shall never see 我想我从未见过一首 A poem lovely as a tree. 美如玉树的诗章。 (2) A tree whose hungry mouth is prest 一棵张着饥饿嘴巴的树， against the earth's sweet flowing breast; 紧压在大地甘美而流畅的乳房 上；...
03 Pines The pine placed nearly always among scenes disordered and desolate brings into them all possible elements of order and precision. Lowland trees may lean to this side and that, though it is but a meadow breeze that bends them, or a bank of co...
THE Humming-Bird Of all animated beings this is the most elegant in form and the most brilliant in colors. The stones and metals polished by our arts are not comparable to① this jewel of Nature②. She③ has placed it least in size of④ the order ...
01 The First Snow The First Snow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The first snow came.How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead! All whit...
