【正文】 hfully . Huxley From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley By Leonard Huxley 陳冠商《英語背誦文選》（第一冊 19） 10. An Important Aspect of College Life It is perfectly possible to anize the life of our colleges in such a way that students and teachers alike will take part in it。s sprit of going direct to Nature, and verifying our opinions and theories by experiment, that has led to all the great discoveries of modern science. (196 words) From Logic By William Stanley Jevons 陳冠商《英語背誦文選》（第一冊 10） 8. A Little Girl Sitting on a grassy grave, beneath one of the windows of the church, was a little girl. With her head bent back she was gazing up at the sky and singing, while one of her little hands was pointing to a tiny cloud that hovered like a golden feather above her head. The sun, which had suddenly bee very bright, shining on her glossy hair, gave it a metallic luster, and it was difficult to say what was the color, dark bronze or black. So pletely absorbed was shi in watching the cloud to which her strange song or incantation and went towards her. Over her head, high up in the blue, a lark that was soaring towards the same gauzy could was singing, as if in rivalry. As I slowly approached the child, I could see by her forehead, which in the sunshine seemed like a globe of pearl, and especially by her plexion, that she unmonly lovely. (159 words) 陳冠商《英語背誦文選》（第一冊 17） 9. Choosing an Occupation Hodeslea, Eastbourne, November 5, 1892 Dear Sir, I am very sorry that the pressure of other occupations has prevented me form sending an earlier reply to your letter. In my opinion a man39。 its very hue seems to be imparted to them, cold and lifeless as they look in the gray, somber light of daybreak. A partially opened bedroom window here and there bespeaks the heat of the weather and the uneasy slumbers of its occupant。 if society were a state coach, the etiquette would be the wheels and axis on which only the coach could roll forward. The lack of proprieties would make the most intimate friends turns to be the most decided enemies and the friendly or allied countries declare war against each other. We can find many examples in the history of mankind. Therefore I advise you to stand on ceremony before anyone else and to take pains not to do anything against etiquette lest you give offences or make enemies. (160 words) by William Hazlitt 陳冠商《英語背誦文選》（第一冊 7） 6. An Hour Before Sunrise An hour before sunrise in the city there is an air of cold. Solitary desolation about the noiseless streets, which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely shut buildings which throughout the day are warming with life. The drunken, the dissipated, and the criminal have disappeared。 it shall point to the center of the earth as long as the tree lives. It may be well also for lowland branches to reach hither and thither for what they need, and to take all kinds of irregular shape and extension. But the pine is trained to need nothing and endure everything. It is resolvedly whole, selfcontained, desiring nothing but rightness, content with restricted pletion. Tall or short, it will be straight. (160 words) From Modern Painters By John Ruskin 陳冠商《英語背誦文選》（第一冊 3） 2 4. Reading Good Books Devote some of your leisure, I repeat, to cultivating a love of reading good books. Fortunate indeed are those who contrive to make themselves g