晨读英语美文篇 .docx

星火书业 晨读英语美?文100篇?六级Passa?ge 1. knowl?edge and Virtu?eKnowl?edge is one thing?, virtu?e is anoth?er; good sense? is not consc?ience?, refin?ement? is not humil?ityno?r is large?ness and justn?ess of view faith?. Philo?sophy?, howev?er enlig?htene?d, howev?er profo?und, gives? no comma?nd over the passi?ons, no influ?entia?l motiv?es, no vivif?ying princ?iples?. Liber?al Educa?tion makes? not the Chris?tian, not the Catho?lic, but the gentl?eman.It is well to be a gentl?eman, it is well to have a culti?vated? intel?lect, a delic?ate taste?, a candi?d, equit?able, dispa?ssion?ate mind,a noble? and court?eous beari?ng in the condu?ct of life—these? are the conna?tural? quali?ties of a large? knowl?edge; they are the objec?ts of a Unive?rsity?.I am advoc?ating?, I shall? illus?trate? and insis?t upon them; but still?, I repea?t, they are no guara?ntee for sanct?ity or even for consc?ienti?ousne?ss, and they may attac?h to the man of the world?, to the profl?igate?, to the heart?less, pleas?ant, alas, and attra?ctive? as he shows? when decke?d out in them. Taken? by thems?elves?, they do but seem to be what they are not; they look like virtu?e at a dista?nce, but they are detec?ted by close? obser?vers, and in the long run; and hence? it is that they are popul?arly accus?ed of prete?nse and hypoc?risy, not, I repea?t, from their? own fault?, but becau?se their? profe?ssors? and their? admir?ers persi?st in takin?g them for what they are not, and are offic?ious in arrog?ating? for them a prais?e to which? they have no claim?. Quarr?y the grani?te rock with razor?s, or moor the vesse?l with a threa?d of silk, then may you hope with such keen and delic?ate instr?ument?s as human? knowl?edge and human? reaso?n to conte?nd again?st those? giant?s, the passi?on and the pride? of man.Passa?ge 2. “Packi?ng” a Perso?n A perso?n, like a commo?dity, needs? packa?ging. But going? too far is absol?utely? undes?irabl?e. A littl?e exagg?erati?on, howev?er, does no harm when it shows? th