50 CLASSIC ESSAYS:经典随笔50首

书籍目录

01 ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS 001

02 AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION:“WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT?” 004

03 THE AWFUL GERMAN LANGUAGE 013

04 BEFORE THE DIET OF WORMS 036

05 CATS 040

06 CHEESE 046

07 DARWIN’S VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE 050

08 THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 056

09 THE DIFFERENT DEGREES OF ENJOYMENT PRESENTED BY THE CONTEMPLATION OF NATURE 061

10 DREAM-CHILDREN 064

11 THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION 069

12 A FREE MAN’S WORSHIP 072

13 THE FUTURE OF ASTRONOMY 083

14 A GENERAL VIEW OF THEOSOPHY 100

15 GIFTS 104

16 HOW PAIN LEADS TO KNOWLEDGE AND POWER 109

17 THE KNOWLEDGE OF SELF 112

18 LINCOLN’S LAST HOURS 120

19 THE MAN WHO THINKS BACKWARDS 141

20 THE MEANING AND METHOD OF SPIRITUAL LIFE 146

21 MEDITATION 17 160

22 A MESSAGE TO GARCIA 163

23 A MODEST PROPOSAL 168

24 NEVER AGAIN! 179

25 NIGHT AND MOONLIGHT 195

26 OF TRUTH 204

27 ON ENGLISH COMPOSITION AND OTHER MATTERS 207

28 ON THE ART OF FICTION 212

29 ON THE FEAR OF DEATH 214

30 ON THE METHOD OF GRACE 227

31 ON THE PLEASURE OF TAKING UP ONE’S PEN 234

32 ON THE TRAGEDIES OF SHAKESPEARE 238

33 ON THE UNJUST CAUSES OF WAR 260

34 OUR CHILDREN AND GREAT DISCOVERIES 268

35 OUR FRIEND THE DOG 270

36 THE PHILOSOPHY OF BIRDS’ NESTS 285

37 THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION 304

38 THE PLACE OF SCIENCE IN A LIBERAL EDUCATION 319

39 PUBLIC PRAYER 331

40 THE RHYTHM OF LIFE 337

41 THE SACREDNESS OF WORK 341

42 SELF-DENIAL NOT THE ESSENCE OF VIRTUE 342

43 SHOULD WOMEN BE BEAUTIFUL? 345

44 SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC 352

45 THOUGHTS ON GOVERNMENT (1776) 367

46 THE THREE KINDS OF MEN 377

47 TO WRITE OR NOT TO WRITE 382

48 TRUTH OF INTERCOURSE 384

49 WHEN A MAN COMES TO HIMSELF 394

50 WHY ARE ALL MEN GAMBLERS? 408

作者简介

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This selection brings together fifty classics non-fictions, written by Henry David Thoreau, William Hazlitt, Francis Bacon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Allen, G. K. Chesterton, Charles Lamb, Bertrand Russel, Robert Louis Stevenson, etc,. It’s a treasure trove of fine writing and thought-provoking essays.

Spare some of your time reading it each day, you must benefit from the daily accumulation of English learning.

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