![]() ![]() Of explaining things that, I profess, I know not how to reject it. Hand, something so satisfactory, so natural and intelligible, in the modern way But, when these are out of my thoughts, there seems, on the other Truth of those odd consequences, so long as I have in view the reasonings that ![]() Nor can any one be more entirely satisfied of the ![]() The strictest survey sets them both off to advantage while the false lustre ofĮrror and disguise cannot endure being reviewed, or too nearly inspected. This, think you, a sign that they are genuine, that they proceed from nature,Īnd are conformable to right reason? Truth and beauty are in this alike, that Still more clear and evident and, the more I consider them, the more Have done nothing ever since I saw you but search after mistakes and fallacies,Īnd, with that view, have minutely examined the whole series of yesterday’sĭiscourse: but all in vain, for the notions it led me into, upon review, appear Or fallacies in my reasonings from them, you will now discover them to me. You were so intent upon it, in hopes if there were any mistakes in your concessions, All this morning my head was soįilled with our late conversation that I had not leisure to think of the time ![]() Pardon, Philonous, for not meeting you sooner. Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous: text - IntraText CT Table of Contents | Words : Alphabetical - Frequency - Inverse - Length - Statistics | Help | IntraText LibraryĬlick here to hide the links to concordance ![]()
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![]() “These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and powder / Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey / Is loathsome in his own deliciousness / And in the taste confounds the appetite: / Therefore love moderately long love doth so / Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.” Romeo and Juliet reimagined in a 1920s Shanghai brimming with violent gangster mayhem, a mysterious monster, and a plague-like madness. As the deaths stack up, Juliette and Roma must set their guns-and grudges-aside and work together, for if they can’t stop this mayhem, then there will be no city left for either to rule. And behind every move is their heir, Roma Montagov, Juliette’s first love… and first betrayal.īut when gangsters on both sides show signs of instability culminating in clawing their own throats out, the people start to whisper. Their only rivals in power are the White Flowers, who have fought the Scarlets for generations. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang-a network of criminals far above the law. The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery.Ī blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. ![]() ![]() ![]() May you write it in beauty as we have told it in beauty."-Zeahley Tso, Chief of the Navajo. Asa Delugie, War Chief of the Mescallero Apaches. There is a golden thread which touches Tollan, The Mighty, and beautiful Tula, while through some of our mothers there is a white thread to the words of The Prophet. There is a thread which runs far to the south where the mountain tops touch the sky and the Thunder Bird moves through the lightning’s. Through the tribes we have captured and with whom we have intermarried there is a red thread which runs back to the Red Land long sunken in the Destruction. Tell the legends so that our young men will realize that the ancestor threads run in many directions. Now we are looking down and our feathers are drooping. When you string them together, remember our great pride. ![]() These are our legends told about the campfires on winter's evenings. ![]() "We are the Ancients, and our skin is red: with us, the Sacred Color. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Garfields live in "the city" - that's up north, and by the way, every city in Jeffers's novel carries the same moniker. Ailey's sisters are Lydia, the eldest, and Carol Rose, the middle sister. We meet her as a three-year-old, the youngest daughter of Mrs. Specifically, we travel to Chicasetta, a rural town that once upon a time was a plantation, and before that a Creek village.Īiley Pearl Garfield is at the center of this sweeping saga. It focuses on a fictional African American family in Georgia, beginning before the state was Georgia. Spanning two hundred years, it takes an intimate look at race, feminism, love, and family as told by a line of unforgettable Black women from America's South. Dramatic, beautifully written, and compulsively readable, the novel brims from page to page with grand storytelling and heart. Du Bois is an immersive journey through American history. ![]() ![]() While sympathetic to Watson and Crick's desire to keep the discovery secret until all results could be confirmed, Delbruk's allegiance ultimately was to science itself. The story here centers on Max Delbruk, a mutual friend who traveled between Cambridge and Cal Tech. Watson describes with obvious unease the way in which Pauling came to know that Watson and Crick had solved the mystery, and created a model of DNA's helical structure. ![]() The quest for the secret of DNA became a fierce competition between, among others, Watson and Crick's lab in Cambridge, and Pauling's lab at Cal Tech. He recounts not just the brilliance and insight, but the politics, the competition, and the luck. ![]() Watson's book is a remarkably frank account of the way science is actually done. The actual discovery was made Francis Crick and James Watson, and is famously chronicled in Watson's book The Double Helix. We find a cautionary tale for the Open Source community in the story of Pauling's foundational work that made possible the discovery of the structure of DNA. Pauling was the rarest of men: a scientist who won the Nobel Prize not once, but twice. Linux creator Linus Torvalds reports that the name "Linus" was chosen for him because of his parents' admiration for Nobel laureate Linus Pauling. Introduction Introduction Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, and Mark Stone ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The plantation experiences unprecedented prosperity-but slaves begin to disappear without a trace. Within a season, Jabe has grown into a full-grown man with ""the strength of fifty"" and the seeds have sprouted into a fruit-bearing pear tree. Setting the pattern for many extraordinary feats to come, Jabe calls out to the fish that have eluded Addy's attempts to catch them, and they virtually fly right into Addy's wagon. To thank Addy for bringing him to shore, Jabe gives her a golden pear (""This must be the fruit of heaven,"" she sighs), and then plants its seeds by the river. But the boy, Jabe, is no defenseless babe. ![]() Plenty sends her to fish by the riverbank. Addy, a slave on the Plenty Plantation, discovers a boy floating in a basket when Mr. Readers will immediately recognize that Nolen (Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm) has set her sights high: the tale opens with an unmistakable reference to the story of Moses in the bulrushes. Folklore and history give an uncommonly rich patina to this freshly inspiring original tale set in slavery times. ![]() ![]() ![]() I love that this book had a completely different feel to the previous two. This novella series is all set in a fantasy world called Aedaron, but each book follows different groups of characters in different stories. I can't help it! I'm addicted! Best Left In The Shadows is the third book in An Echo of the Ascended and my third book in three days. Overall, I'd recommend this fun, short story. ![]() ![]() I was surprised and pleased by their depiction of a brothel, which focused on the people, not their sexual appeal. There was a fair amount of bad language (half of it relating to excrement and the other half cursing words). I enjoyed this story and look forward to reading future stories in the Alys series. The fantasy world was reasonably well developed for a short story, and I could always follow what was going on even though I was unfamiliar with this world. The characters were interesting, varied, and played well off each other. They ask questions, follow clues, and unravel the truth. Both can fight well, and they get the chance to do it. They're an interesting contrast to each other-one is idealistic, the other very practical. ![]() He's guided around by a low-born gal with whom he has a romantic past. A well-born girl is found dead in the slum area, so a well-born magistrate comes looking for answers. "Best Left in the Shadows" is a short story-a fantasy that contains a mystery. ![]() ![]() The language is a delight to the senses and a clever joy to the mind. ![]() The author does a great, one might even say beautifully lush job, of describing the world and sensations the characters experience in it. The first thing I will mention is the writing. I'm going to have to give this review in three parts because, whatever else this book is, it is full of extremes. So, recommended! Just focus on the space whales and you should be fine! All of this can make the audiobook hard to follow at times, but the narrator is really good, with a fittingly theatrical, smooth voice and, when he switches up tone to suit a genre, there's an entirely new level of humor that I don't think you'd get from reading the book. All of this makes sense of course, since they're all movie folks and a woman has disappeared without a trace. ![]() ![]() It constantly and consciously shifts in tone, from a noir detective story to gothic horror and more, as characters argue over what, exactly, the story is. The book was weirder than I'd expected, theatrical in tone and post modern in theme, the story is told through transcripts and radio announcements, interviews and gossip columns. I bought this audiobook because I'd listened to an interview with the author in which she mentioned that this book had space whales and, well, I'm not about to pass that up. ![]() ![]() Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know, and the resulting conflict and misunderstanding have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In it, Malcolm Gladwell revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, and the death of Sandra Bland-throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. ![]() Talking to Strangers is a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. ![]() How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers, and why they often go wrong -now with a new afterword by the author.Ī Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of the nearly fifty persons connected with the case have been interviewed by Frank The Deed, a story of passion, is woven of intimate threads neatly loomed and carefully blocked without false pathos or the riddle sentimentality. ![]() Seeking to understand why Lord Moyne died, and why his assassins paid the highest penalty, Frank studied the whole picture in the Mideast at that time, focusing on the administration of Sir Harold MacMichael, British High Commissioner and the ""most hated man"" in Palestine. Lord Moyne, was killed - in the courtyard of his home on Novem- by members of an underground Jewish terrorist group. ![]() Walter Edward Guinness (of the stout family). Reporting the partly-censored trial of the two boys who committed The eed and returning often to the Middle East on subsequent assignments, veteran ocumentarian Frank was ""held spellbound by the tale"" of how and why the ranking British official of the area, Rt. ![]() |