Tag: Essay in English
Ambition The general view of ambition is expressed in the words which Shakespeare put into the mouth of the ambitious but fallen Wolsey to his ambitious and rising successor …
Aseptic Surgery It is no exaggeration to say that Lord Lister. the great English surgeon, has saved millions of lives. Without his wonderful discoveries, many of the operations performed …
Do Writers Write for Money? Every man who embarks on the perilous profession of writing has to prepare himself for a punishing job. But, if he is honest, he …
The Cinema as a Rival of the Stage The cinema is now a very popular form of entertainment, and even the smallest town has now its “picture-house”. In the …
A Righteous Man Regardeth the Life of His Beast In England the cruel treatment of animals is a crime punishable by law: and there is a “Society for the …
Is Life for us Better than it was for our Forefathers? To try to answer this question, we had better go back in thought about two hundred years, say …
The Pleasures of Reading Says the poet “My days among the dead are past Around me I behold Wherever these casual eyes are cast The mighty minds of …
Safety First “It is a well-known fact”, wrote Robert Louis Stevenson, “that an immense proportion of boat accidents would never happen if people held the sheet in their hands …
The Place of Illusion in Art All art is based on the willing acceptance of illusion. You look at a landscape painting. You know that it consists of paint …
Travel as a Part of Education There is a story, called “Eyes and No-eyes”, of two school-boys who one day went the same country walk, but at different times. …