Thomas Wolfe
- Look Homeward Angel p1b
Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.
Thomas Wolfe
- Look Homeward Angel p1a
A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and hence into the hills that shut in Altamont over the proud coral cry of the cock, and the soft stone smile of an angel, is touched by that dark miracle of chance which makes new magic in a dusty world.
Robert Frost
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening p2
He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT p1
- OLD EPHRAIM
For some days after our arrival on the Bighorn range we did not come across any grizzly. There were plenty of black-tail deer in the woods, and we encountered a number of bands of cow and calf elk, or of young bulls; but after several days' hunting, we were still without any game worth taking home, and we had seen no sign of grizzly, which was the game we were especially anxious to kill, for neither Merrifield nor I had ever seen a bear alive.
Nellie Bly
- Six Months in Mexico p2
Three days after leaving Pittsburgh we awoke one morning to find ourselves in the lap of summer. For a moment it seemed a dream. When the porter had made up our bunks the evening previous, the surrounding country had been covered with a snowy blanket. When we awoke the trees were in leaf and the balmy breeze mocked our wraps.
Nellie Bly
- Six Months in Mexico
One wintry night I bade my few journalistic friends adieu, and, accompanied by my mother, started on my way to Mexico. Only a few months previous I had become a newspaper woman. I was too impatient to work along at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers, so I conceived the idea of going away as a correspondent.
Henry James
- Portrait of a Lady p2
The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality.
Henry James
- Portrait of a Lady
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not - some people of course never do, - the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pasttime.
WALTER E KISIELESKI
- LIFE PROCESSES p2
The cell is the smallest portion of any organism that exhibits the properties we associate with living material. In spite of the immense variety of sizes, shapes, and structures of living things, they all have this in common: They are composed of cells, and living cells contain similar components that operate in similar ways. One might say that life is a single process and that all living things operate on a single plan.
WALTER E. KISIELESKI
- LIFE PROCESSES p1
The nature of life has excited the interest of human beings from the earliest times. Although it is still not known what life is, the characteristics that set living things apart from lifeless matter are well known. One feature common to all living things, from one-celled creatures to complex animals like man, is that they are all composed of microscopic units known as cells.
E. Nesbit
- The Railway Children
They were not railway children to begin with. I don't suppose they had ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cook's, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud's.
Thornton W. Burgess
- Blacky the Crow p1
Blacky the Crow is always watching for things not intended for his sharp eyes. The result is that he gets into no end of trouble which he could avoid. In this respect he is just like his cousin, Sammy Jay. Between them they see a great deal with which they have no business and which it would be better for them not to see.
SARAH K. BOLTON.
- George Peabody p2
George Peabody was born in Danvers, Feb. 18, 1795. His parents were respectable, hard-working people, whose scanty income afforded little education for their children. George grew up an obedient, faithful son, called a "mother-boy" by his companions, from his devotion to her, a title of which any boy may well be proud.
SARAH K. BOLTON.
- George Peabody p1
If America had been asked who were to be her most munificent givers in the nineteenth century, she would scarcely have pointed to two grocer's boys, one in a little country store at Danvers, Mass., the other in Baltimore; both poor, both uneducated; the one leaving seven millions to Johns Hopkins University and Hospital, the other nearly nine millions to elevate humanity.
Part 2
- Physics
The development of physical theory requires creativity at every stage. The physicist has to learn to ask appropriate questions, design experiments to try to answer the questions, and draw appropriate conclusions from the results.
Part 1
- Physics
Physics is an experimental science. Physicists observe the phenomena of nature and try to find patterns and principles that relate these phenomena. These patterns are called physical theories or, when they are very well established and of broad use, physical laws or principles.
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
- NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
Born in Poland, Copernicus studied mathematics and optics at Kracow. After 30 years of work, he put forward a theory that Earth rotates daily about its own axis, and that Earth and the other planets orbit the Sun with years of different lengths. This challenged the ancient belief that Earth was the center of the Universe. Copernicus was reluctant to publish his controversial theory, but other leading astronomers developed and expanded his theory after his death.
Charles Taylor
- Archimedes
A Greek mathematician and inventor, Archimedes invented a spiral pump for raising water. The pump, called an Archimedian screw is still used. He discovered differential calculus and the formula for the volume of a sphere. He is best known for his work on the principles of buoyancy, which he is alleged to have discovered when sitting in a bath and noticing how his body displaced the water. He was killed by a Roman soldier during an invasion of his home city of Syracuse.
Jane Austen
- Emma Ch1pc
Her mother had died too long ago for her to have more than an indistinct remembrance of her caresses; and her place had been supplied by an excellent woman as governess, who had fallen little short of a mother in affection.
