The last cause which frequently renders a democratic government dearer than any other is, that a democracy does not always succeed in moderating its expenditure, because it does not understand the art of being economical. As the designs which it entertains are frequently changed, and the agents of those designs are still more frequently removed, its undertakings are often ill conducted or left unfinished: in the former case the State spends sums out of all proportion to the end which it proposes to accomplish; in the second, the expense itself is unprofitable.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
The men who are entrusted with the direction of public affairs in the United States are frequently inferior, both in point of capacity and of morality, to those whom aristocratic institutions would raise to power. But their interest is identified and confounded with that of the majority of their fellow-citizens. They may frequently be faithless and frequently mistaken, but they will never systematically adopt a line of conduct opposed to the will of the majority; and it is impossible that they should give a dangerous or an exclusive tendency to the government.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
Statistics.--From an examination of 28 cases of spontaneous combustion, Jacobs makes the following summary:--
(1) It has always occurred in the human living body. (2) The subjects were generally old persons. (3) It was noticed more frequently in women than in men. (4) All the persons were alone at the time of occurrence. (5) They all led an idle life. (6) They were all corpulent or intemperate. (7) Most frequently at the time of occurrence there was a light and some ignitible substance in the room. (8) The combustion was rapid and was finished in from one to seven hours.英文原著 · 《Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine》
The walk to the beach was no inconsiderable one, consisting as it did of a long, sandy path, upon which a sporadic and tangled growth that bordered it on either side made frequent and unexpected inroads. There were acres of yellow camomile reaching out on either hand. Further away still, vegetable gardens abounded, with frequent small plantations of orange or lemon trees intervening. The dark green clusters glistened from afar in the sun.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
"Vous etes une habitante de Moscou?" I began, and, on receiving an affirmative answer, continued. "Et moi, je n'ai encore jamais frequente la capitale" (with a particular emphasis on the word "frequente"). Yet I felt that, brilliant though this introduction might be as evidence of my profound knowledge of the French language, I could not long keep up the conversation in that manner. Our turn for dancing had not yet arrived, and silence again ensued between us. I kept looking anxiously at her in the hope both of discerning what impression I had produced and of her coming to my aid.英文原著 · 《Childhood》
In Europe we frequently introduce the ideas and the habits of private life into public affairs; and as we pass at once from the domestic circle to the government of the State, we may frequently be heard to discuss the great interests of society in the same manner in which we converse with our friends. The Americans, on the other hand, transfuse the habits of public life into their manners in private; and in their country the jury is introduced into the games of schoolboys, and parliamentary forms are observed in the order of a feast.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
When I speak to businesspeople, I frequently make them very upset When I speak to businesspeople, I frequently make them very upset演讲 · 《I am a pirate ~ Rick Falkvinge》