THE SKETCH BOOKRURAL LIFE IN ENGLANDby Washington IrvingOh! friendly to the best pursuits of man,Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace,Domestic life in rural pleasures past!COWPER.THE stranger who would form a correct opinion of the Englishcharacter must not confine his observations to the metropolis. He must...
Ferragusby Honore de BalzacTranslated by Katharine Prescott WormeleyDEDICATIONTo Hector Berlioz.PREFACEThirteen men were banded together in Paris under the Empire, allimbued with one and the same sentiment, all gifted with sufficientenergy to be faithful to the same thought, with sufficient honor amongthemselves never to betray one another even if their interestsclashed; and sufficiently wily and politic to conceal the sacred tiesthat united them, sufficiently strong to maintain themselves abov
The Writings of Abraham Lincolnby Abraham LincolnVOLUME THREETHE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES IPOLITICAL SPEECHES & DEBATES of LINCOLN WITH DOUGLASIn the Senatorial Campaign of 1858 in IllinoisSPEECH AT SPRINGFIELD, JUNE 17, 1858[The following speech was delivered at Springfield, Ill., at theclose of the Republican State Convention held at that time andplace, and by which Convention Mr. LINCOLN had been named as...
THE YELLOW DWARFOnce upon a time there lived a queen who had been themother of a great many children, and of them all only onedaughter was left. But then SHE was worth at least a thousand.Her mother, who, since the death of the King, herfather, had nothing in the world she cared for so much asthis little Princess, was so terribly afraid of losing her thatshe quite spoiled her, and never tried to correct any of herfaults. The consequence was that this little person, who...
Zanoniby Edward Bulwer LyttonDEDICATORY EPISTLEFirst prefixed to the Edition of 1845TOJOHN GIBSON, R.A., SCULPTOR.In looking round the wide and luminous circle of our great livingEnglishmen, to select one to whom I might fitly dedicate thiswork,one who, in his life as in his genius, might illustratethe principle I have sought to convey; elevated by the idealwhich he exalts, and serenely dwelling in a glorious existence...
20世纪80年代在现代中国社会和思想发展史上是一个特别的时期,占有重要的位置。这个时期承担了“革命”与“改良”的双重任务。一方面,整体社会心态的激进程度并不亚于前此的几十年,“批判”仍然是社会人文研究的基本特征。记得上大学本科时,我们一帮七七、七八级(两届其实只差半年)的老学生,整天不停地读书、提问、辩论,为刘少奇、彭德怀和张志新等鸣不平,为中国改革开放的政策欢呼跳跃、摇旗呐喊。在米歇尔·福柯(Michel Foucault)1976年法兰西学院授课,分析“革命话语”(revolutionary discourse)的十年之后,①我们竟连做梦也没有想过还有所谓支配思想的“话语”体系的存在!于是,那时总体上说,是在“旧话语”的系统中开拓着“新局面”。所以,在无意识中,道德的勇气比缜密的分析显得更加有意义,并具有天然的价值优势。与这种精神气质(ethos)一脉相承,在...
一、儒学的流变中国儒学,是在孔子学说基础上不断发展演变形成的。儒学发展史大致可分为六个时期,即先秦儒家、两汉经学、魏晋玄学、宋明理学、清代朴学和现代新儒学。先秦儒家诞生于春秋末年,为孔子所创立。孔子是伟大的思想家,又是我国第一个职业教育家,他一生教学,有弟子三千,贤者七十有二。又删订《诗》、《书》,修起《礼》、《乐》,赞《易》,修《春秋》,制定了儒家经典。他还精研罩思,形成“仁义礼”一体论、仁政德治论和“君子”道德伦,为儒家学派奠定了理论基础。从此,作为有经典、有纲领、有徒众的儒家学派正式问世了。孔子创立儒家,其意义不仅仅在于一个学派的诞生,而且由于儒家讲学之风的影响,促成了诸子争鸣的形成和百家的诞生,带来了中国学术繁荣的第一个高潮。战国是儒学壮大期。此时儒家得到初步发展,成为势力强大的一世“显学”。《史记》说:“自孔子卒后,七十子之徒散游诸侯,大者为师傅卿相,...