文档介绍:晨读英语100篇
Passage 1. knowledge and Virtue
[00:]Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another;
[00:]good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility,
[00:]nor is largeness and justness of view faith.
[00:]Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound,
[00:]gives mand over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles.
[00:]Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman.
[01:]It is well to be a gentleman,
[01:]it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste,
[01:]a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind,
[01:]a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life
[01:]—these are the connatural qualities of a large knowledge;
[01:]they are the objects of a University.
[01:]I am advocating, I shall illustrate and insist upon them;
[01:]but still, I repeat, they are no guarantee for sanctity or even for conscientiousness,
[01:]and they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate,
[01:]to the heartless, pleasant, alas, and attractive as he shows when decked out in them.
[01:]Taken by themselves, they do but seem to be what they are not;
[01:]they look like virtue at a distance, but they are detected by close observers, and in the long run;
[02:]and hence it is that they are popularly accused of pre