Libraries destroyed by Fire.--Alexandrian. Paul's destruction of MSS., Value of.--Christian books destroyed by Heathens.--Heathen books destroyed by Christians.--Hebrew books burnt at Cremona.--Arabic books at Grenada.--Monastic libraries.-- Colton library.--Birmingham riots.--Dr. Priestley's library.-- Lord Mansfield's books.--Cowper.--Strasbourg library bombarded.-- Offor Collection burnt.--Dutch Church library damaged.-- Iibrary of Corporation of London.英文原著 · 《Enemies of Books》
There was a strange little sound from the sofa like a rat nibbling behind the wainscot. "I must tell you," said Miss Warlock, speaking apparently with some difficulty, "that I have done you a wrong. Shortly after my father's death my brother wrote to you from Paris."
"Wrote to me?" repeated Maggie. "Yes--wrote to you through me. I destroyed the letters. He wrote then five times in rather swift succession. I destroyed all the letters."
Maggie said nothing. "I destroyed the letters," continued Amy Warlock, "because I did not wish you and my brother to come together.英文原著 · 《The Captives》
What next? Why, obviously!--How comes it that great, intellectual, aesthetic Paris never thought of such a wonderful thing before? A new religion! Christianity is old and obsolete, priests are aristocrats, wealthy oppressors of the People, the Church but another form of wanton tyranny. Let us by all means have a new religion. Already something has been done to destroy the old! To destroy! always to destroy!英文原著 · 《The Elusive Pimpernel》
"Do you see this lantern?" cried Syme in a terrible voice. "Do you see the cross carved on it, and the flame inside? You did not make it. You did not light it, Better men than you, men who could believe and obey, twisted the entrails of iron and preserved the legend of fire. There is not a street you walk on, there is not a thread you wear, that was not made as this lantern was, by denying your philosophy of dirt and rats. You can make nothing. You can only destroy. You will destroy mankind; you will destroy the world.英文原著 · 《The Man Who Was Thursday》
Murder and pillage began. All the Chinese met their death there. The town was burned and the walls of the fortress destroyed. Afterwards Hun Baldon came to Uliassutai and also destroyed the Chinese fortress there. The ruins of it still stand with the broken embattlements and towers, the useless gates and the remnants of the burned official quarters and soldiers' barracks.英文原著 · 《Beasts, Men and Gods》
"I leave him to a higher retribution--to One who says, 'Vengeance is mine.' I believe him to be guilty of the murder but if the uplifting of my finger would send him to his disgraceful death, I would tie down my hand rather than lift it, for I could not, in my own mind, separate the man from the injury. Though I might ostensibly pursue him as the destroyer of Hallijohn, to me he would appear ever as the destroyer of another, and the world, always charitable, would congratulate Mr. Carlyle upon gratifying his revenge. I stir in it not, Richard."英文原著 · 《East Lynne》