在安得卫普，他写道，鲁本斯的宗教画作“风格夸张，不过他只会把皇后大臣画得老成世故，正如其人。”
From Antwerp he wrote that the religious paintings of Rubens are “theatrical…But what he can do is paint a queen, a statesman, well analysed, just as they are.
但是，正如彭恩在备忘录里写道，这也是他的唯一致命弱点。
他写道，“我们这一时代的诗-，正如我们生活着的世界-，让人费解。”
He says, "Poetry in our own time — — such is the complexity of the world we live in — must be difficult."
“每一件事的开始都将会建立一个先例，正如当下我们所做的事情”，他在给杰姆斯·麦迪逊的信中写道，“我虔诚地希望，这些先例是建立在正确的原则的基础上的。”
"As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a precedent," he wrote James Madison, "it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles."
正如柏拉图那个遥远的追随者圣辛卜力乌斯(全盛时期，公元540年)所报告的，他写道：“柏拉图给所有重视这件事的人提出了一个严重的问题，让这些人通过研究天体运动匀而有序的方法来拯救行星现象”。
AD 540, who wrote that Plato had proposed as a problem to all who consider these things seriously to investigate the uniform and regular motions by means of which planetary phenomena may be saved '.
正如《时代周刊》在事故发生一个月后所写道的：“一位农民亲眼看到他的猫气绝身亡，他走过去捡起猫，猫的尾巴就掉了下来。”
As TIME wrote about a month after the incident, "One farmer saw his cat keel over, and when he went to pick up the body, the tail fell off."
一旦他表达出了这种野心，正如维吉尔写道，诗歌之神阿波罗，闯入诗歌的篇章并指责他。
As soon as he has expressed this epic ambition -virgil explains that as soon as he's expressed this Phoebus Apollo, the god of poetry, stepped in and chided him.
一旦他表达出了这种野心，正如维吉尔写道，诗歌之神阿波罗，闯入诗歌的篇章并指责他。
As soon as he has expressed this epic ambition -virgil explains that as soon as he's expressed this Phoebus Apollo, the god of poetry, stepped in and chided him.
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