She did not know what people of other nations ate, and did not care. For Italian food was the best.
Only one thing, in those years, drew from her a cry of fury. This was the publication, in 1563, of a single, stout book. It was known as Foxe’s Book of Martyrs; and it was an astonishing feat of propa...
Los ricos, los de clase media y los pobres se codeaban sin mayor problema, al igual que lo sagrado y lo profano.
Los antiguos griegos lo llamaban la tragedia del hibris. El rey que peca de exceso de orgullo recibe el castigo de los dioses.
La enemistad perdura. La amistad es menos segura. Sobre todo en esos tiempos.
It was politics and religion, in van Dyck’s private view, that made men dangerous. Trade made them wise.
El resultado es una forma parecida al tronco de un árbol envuelta en una capa, de la que surge una gran cabeza con un cuello recio como el de un toro.
But, she smiled, it seems to me he has a warm heart.
Brothers who are alive today, when we are gone, do not be hard, but pity us Beg God’s forgiveness for us now, that He may sooner pity you, when you are dust. It
—Dicen que los poetas y los intelectuales son los mejores terroristas
Have had to pay for a visit to the discreet mansion near the Opéra—into a fund. And tonight they were going to draw lots to discover which of them was to take the money and visit La Belle Hélène. But...
When people are angry, any insult will do; and prejudice is magnified into a cause.
What he needed Gorham to understand - what his son was heir to - the thing that really mattered - was the New Yorkers indomitable spirit
Then he noticed the belt. He pulled it out. The thing had been handed down in the family since God knows when. His father had told: 'Better keep it. It's wampum. Supposed to be lucky.' William shrugge...
Oh Lord, we thank Thee for this thy gift of lobster Newburg. And grant us also, if it be Thy will, control of the Hudson Ohio Railroad.''But we ain't wanting control of the Hudson Ohio, Sean softly ob...
New York was always materialist. But it was also the city of excellence, of art, music, of endless possibilities.
London es, antes que nada, una novela. Todas las familias cuya suerte sigue esta historia, desde los Ducket hasta la familia de Penny, son ficticias, al igual que el papel que cada uno de ellos desemp...
Francia era la mejor nación, la más culta e inteligente del mundo, eso repetían y repetían; así pues, por tanto, no tenía nada que aprender de los ordinarios alemanes, de los toscos anglosajones ni de...
Doesn’t private vice make a man unworthy of public office? And now kindly Mrs. Albion looked at Mercy with genuine astonishment. Well, she laughed, if it did, there’d be no one to govern the land.
And in busy London there now grew up one of the greatest gifts that the English genius was to leave the world. For in the reign of Elizabeth I began the first and greatest flowering of the glorious En...