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Kant the Man William Somert Maugham
Punctually at five minutes to five Lampe, his rvant, waked Professor Kant and by five, in his slippers, dressing-gown and night-cap, over which he wore his three-corned hat, he ated himlf in his study ready for breakfast. This consisted of a cup of weak tea and a pipe of tobacco. The next two hours he spent thinking over the lecture he was to deliver that morning. The he dresd. The lecture room was on the ground floor of his hou. He lectured from ven till nine and so popular were his lectures that if you wanted a good at you had to be there at six-thirty
Kant, ated behind a little desk, spoke in a conversational tone, in a low voice, and very rarely indulged in gesture, but he enlivened his discour with humor and abundant illustrations. His aim was to teach his students to think for themlves and he did not like it when they busied themlves with their quills to write down his every word.
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It was his custom to fix his eyes on a student who sat clo to him and judge by the look on his face whether or not he understood what he said. But a very small thing distracted him. On one occasion he lost the thread of his discour becau a button was wanting on the coat of one of the students, and on another, when a sleepy youth persistently yawned, he broke off to say: “If one cannot avoid yawning, good manners require that the hand should be placed before the mouth.〞amide
At nine o’clock Kant returned to his room, once more put on his dressing-gown, his night-cap, his three-corned hat and his slippers and studied till exactly a quarter to one. Then he called down to his cook, told her the hour, dresd and went back to his study to await the guests he expected to dinner.pep小学英语五年级下册
He could not bear to eat alone, and there were always guests, never less than two nor more than five. As soon as they were asmbled Kant told his rvant to bring the dinner and himlf went to fetch the silver spoons which he kept locked up with his money in a bureau in the parlour
The party ated themlves in the dining-room and with the words “Now, gentlemen,〞 Kant t to. The meal was substantial. It was the only one he ate in the day, and consisted of soup, dried pul with fish, roast, chee to end with and fruit when in ason. Before each guest was placed a pint bottle of red wine and a pint bottle of white so that he could drink whichever he liked.
Kant was fond of talking, but preferred to talk alone, and if interrupted or contradicted was apt to show displeasure; his conversation, however, was so agreeable that none minded if he monopolized it.
parr He would also tell humorous stories, of which he had a rich supply and which he told uncommonly well, so, he said, “that the repast may end with laughter, which is calculated to promote digestion.〞
He like to linger over dinner and the guests did not ri from table till late. He would not sit down after they had left in ca he fell asleep, and this he would not permit himlf to do since he was of opinion that sleep should be enjoyed sparingly, for thus time was save
d and so life lengthened. He t out on his afternoon walk.
He was a little man, barely five feet tall, with a narrow chest and one shoulder higher than the other, and he was thin almost to emaciation. He had a crooked no, but a fine brow and his color was fresh. His eyes, though small, were blue, lively and penetrating. He was natty I his dress. He wore a small blond wig, a black tie, and a shirt with ruffles round the throat and wrists; a coat, breeches and waistcoat of fine cloth, gray silk stockings and shoes with silver buckles. He carried his three-cornered hat under his arm and in his hand a gold-headed cane. He walked every day, rain or fine, for exactly one hour, but if the weather was threatening, his rvant walked behind him with a big umbrella.sword是什么意思
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The only occasion on which he is known to have omitted his walk is when he received Rousau’s Emile, and then, unable to tear himlf away from it, he remained indoors for three days. He walked very slowly becau he thought it was bad for him to sweat, and alone becau he had formed the habit of breathing through his nostrils, since thus he th底特律警察>bump top
ought to avoid catching cold and, had he had a companion with whom courtesy would obliged him to speak, he would have been constrained to breathe through his mouth.
fighting He invariably took the same walk, along the Linden Alley, and this, according to Heine, he strolled up and down eight times. He issued from his hou at precily the same hour so that the people of the town could t their clocks by it. When he came home he returned to his study and read and wrote letters till the light failed. Then, as was his habit, fixing his eyes on the tower of a neighboring church, he pondered over the problems that just then occupied him. At a quarter to ten he suspended his arduous labor and by ten was safely tucked up in bed.
