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Of course I oughtn't to have begun this sketch without permission. If you mind that, I'll give it up." He found his tongue awkwardly, but vigorously. "You can sketch just as long as ever you please, and make what use of it you like," he said. "It's only a bit of a place though!" "How nice of you! And the interview?" "I'll tell you whatever you want to know," he said quietly. She could scarcely believe in her good fortune, especially when she remembered the description of t...

he did not depart in the slightest degree from the cold gruffness of his tone. The little speech which his clerk had prepared seemed to stick in his throat. "I trust, sir, that you will forgive - that you will pardon the liberty, if I presume to congratulate you upon such a magnificent stroke of business!" Scarlett Trent faced him coldly. "What do you know about it?" he asked. "What concern is it of yours, young man, eh?" The clerk sighed, and became a little confused. He had indulged in some...

for the evaporation from the rivers and icy mediterraneans is slight, the brightness of even the highest noon is less than an earthly twilight, and the stars never cease to shine. The dark base of the rocky cliffs is washed by the frigid tide, but there is scarcely a sound, for the pebbles cannot be moved by the weightless waves, and an occasional murmur is all that is heard. Great rocks of ice reflect the light of the grey moons, and never a leaf falls or a bird sings. With the exception of ...

who stormed it, and fought day and night to reduce it. The army that made the siege with heavy guns had neither eaten nor drunk for twenty days. He lost 5000 of his best soldiers. On the capture of the town 20,000 inhabitants men and women, had their heads cut off, 20,000 young and old were made prisoners and sold.... The treasury, however, having been found empty, the town was abandoned." It is impossible to decide to what this refers, as we have no other information of any capture of Vijaya...

Sir Edward Dyer and M. Fulke Greville. Join mates in mirth to me, Grant pleasure to our meeting; Let Pan, our good god, see How grateful is our greeting. Join hearts and hands, so let it be, Make but one mind in bodies three. Ye hymns and singing skill Of god Apollo's giving, Be pressed our reeds to fill With sound of music living. Join hearts and hands, so let it be, Make but one mind in bodies three. Sweet Orpheus' harp, whose sound The stedfast mountains moved, Let there thy skil...

emperors, senators, great captains, such as, besides a thousand others, David, Adrian, Sophocles, Germanicus, not only to favour poets, but to be poets; and of our nearer times can present for her patrons, a Robert, King of Sicily; the great King Francis of France; King James of Scotland; such cardinals as Bembus and Bibiena; such famous preachers and teachers as Beza and Melancthon; so learned philosophers as Fracastorius and Scaliger; so great orators as Pontanus and Muretus; so piercing wi...

Binnorie, O Binnorie! There came a knight to be their wooer By the bonny mill-dams of Binnorie. He courted the eldest with glove and ring, But he lo'ed the youngest aboon a' thing. He courted the eldest with brooch and knife, But he lo'ed the youngest aboon his life. The eldest she was vex-ed sair, And sore envi-ed her sister fair. Upon a morning fair and clear She cried upon her sister dear: "O, sister, come to yon river strand, And see our father's ships come to land." S...

HIPPIAS: I would rather have eyes which voluntarily blink. SOCRATES: Then in your own case you deem that which voluntarily acts ill, better than that which involuntarily acts ill? HIPPIAS: Yes, certainly, in cases such as you mention. SOCRATES: And does not the same hold of ears, nostrils, mouth, and of all the senses--those which involuntarily act ill are not to be desired, as being defective; and those which voluntarily act ill are to be desired as being good? HIPPIAS: I agree. SOCRATES: An...

Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey caused a stir among mainstream economic and political commentators when he tweeted last week about a threat to society from hyperinflation. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes called it an “incredibly revealing tweet,” later suggesting it was self-servingly motivated by Dorsey being “heavily into crypto.” Calling the United States’ current bout of rising prices “hyperinflation,” Hayes said, is akin to promoting the antiparasitic drug Ivermectin as a cure for COVID-19. Wired...

It’s been well established that the Pixel 6 Pro’s camera is pretty great, but as it turns out it can handle more than the typical smartphone photography. Case in point, a YouTuber slapped a Pixel 6 Pro onto a drone and the results are actually pretty great. OriginaldoBo shared the results of putting the Pixel 6 Pro on a drone earlier today on Twitter, going further in-depth in a later video. Mounted onto the drone, the video the Pixel 6 Pro captures in flight is really impressive, with excell...

SHANGHAI, Oct 26 (Reuters) - The leaders of most of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters gather in Glasgow from Sunday, aiming to thrash out plans and funds to tilt the planet towards clean energy. But the man running the biggest of them all likely won't be there. Chinese President Xi Jinping's expected absence from the talks could indicate that the world's biggest CO2 producer has already decided that it has no more concessions to offer at the U.N. COP26 climate su...

Apple’s newest batch of 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pros have finally started shipping to customers with pre-orders and are expected to reach their new owners as soon as Tuesday. However, if you didn’t have a pre-order and are looking to place an order soon, be prepared to wait to receive your hardware. On Saturday, the Apple Store’s expected delivery dates for new orders of the company’s MacBook Pros, spotted by 9to5Mac, ranged from Nov. 16 to Dec. 23 for standard and custom models. The news isn’...