His name was Hampden Scarborough and he came from a farm about twenty miles east of Saint X. He was descended from men who had learned to hate kings in Holland in the sixteenth century, had learned to despise them in England in the seventeenth century, had learned to laugh at them in America in the eighteenth century, had learned to exalt themselves into kings--the kings of the new democracy--in the free West in the nineteenth century.英文原著 · 《The Cost》
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.英文原著 · 《An Ideal Husband》
The Puritan came in the seventeenth century to demand simple worship, and Morgan Lloyd thought that the second advent of Christ was at hand. The Revivalist came in the eighteenth century, and, in the name of Christ, aroused the people of Wales to a new life of thought.英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
But the particular instance of barrel-organism that is present to our minds just now is the Darwinian theory of the development of species by natural selection, of which we hear so much. This is nothing new, but a rechauffee of the old story that his namesake, Dr. Darwin, served up in the end of the last century to Priestley and his admirers, and Lord Monboddo had cooked in the beginning of the same century. We have all heard of his theory that man was developed directly from the monkey, and that we all lost our tails by sitting too much upon that appendage.英文原著 · 《Canterbury Pieces》
In the sketch which I have endeavoured to give of this fascinating subject, I have led my reader to the very confines of our present knowledge. It is not much more than a quarter of a century since this class of observation has claimed the close attention of astronomers; something considerable has been discovered already and there seems scarcely a discernible limit to what will be known in this field a century from now. Some of the results which I have set forth may then be shown to be false, but it seems profoundly improbable that we are being led astray by a Will-of-the-Wisp.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
"It is not known when they assumed their present shape. They have one universal soul. It is the same with man." He ceased, and Hilary looked round uneasily. They were alone on the bench. Stone's voice rose again. "Their form and balance is their single soul; they have preserved it from century to century. This is all they live for. In those days"--his voice sank; he had plainly forgotten that he was not alone--"when men had no universal conceptions, they would have done well to look at the trees.英文原著 · 《Fraternity》
A century ago, a century and a half ago, de Tocqueville wrote, in regards to America and Russia, the following: "Their point of departure and their paths diverse, nevertheless, each seems called by some secret desire of providence, to one day hold in their hands the destinies of half the world." Wel美剧 · 《House of Cards》
One of the great minds of the 21st century Is about to play host to one of the other great minds of the 21st century.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
Irv Bircher. I designed your offices, now I want to bring them - into the 21st century. - This is the 21st century.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
But you can't have most of the world living in the 21st century and the rest living in the eighth century.美剧 · 《The News Room》