Knowledge and Virtue

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核心提示:Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no infl

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles.

 

Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman. It is well to be a gentleman, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid(公正的), equitable(公平的), dispassionate(不带感情的) mind, a noble and courteous(谦恭的) bearing in the conduct of life -- these are the connatural(先天的) qualities of a large knowledge; they are the objects of a University; I am advocating, I shall illustrate and insist upon them; but still, I repeat, they are no guarantee for sanctity or even for conscientiousness, they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate, to the heartless, pleasant, alas, and attractive as he shows when decked out in them.

 

Taken by themselves, they do but seem to be what they are not; they look like virtue at a distance, but they are detected by close observers, and on the long run; and hence it is that they are popularly accused of pretense and hypocrisy(虚伪), not, I repeat, from their own fault, but because their professors and their admirers persist in taking them for what they are not, and are officious(多管闲事的) in arrogating for them a praise to which they have no claim. Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk, then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man. 

相关单词:virtue

virtue解释:n.德行,美德;贞操;优点;功效,效力

virtue例句:

He was considered to be a paragon of virtue.他被认为是品德尽善尽美的典范。

You need to decorate your mind with virtue.你应该用德行美化心灵。

相关单词:refinement

refinement解释:n.文雅;高尚;精美;精制;精炼

refinement例句:

Sally is a woman of great refinement and beauty. 莎莉是个温文尔雅又很漂亮的女士。

Good manners and correct speech are marks of refinement.彬彬有礼和谈吐得体是文雅的标志。

相关单词:humility

humility解释:n.谦逊,谦恭

humility例句:

Humility often gains more than pride.谦逊往往比骄傲收益更多。

His voice was still soft and filled with specious humility.他的声音还是那么温和,甚至有点谦卑。

相关单词:influential

influential解释:adj.有影响的,有权势的

influential例句:

He always tries to get in with the most influential people.他总是试图巴结最有影响的人物。

He is a very influential man in the government.他在政府中是个很有影响的人物。

相关单词:motives

motives解释:n.动机,目的( motive的名词复数 )

motives例句:

to impeach sb's motives 怀疑某人的动机

His motives are unclear. 他的用意不明。

相关单词:Christian

Christian解释:adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒

Christian例句:

They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。

His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

相关单词:candid

candid解释:adj.公正的,正直的;坦率的

candid例句:

I cannot but hope the candid reader will give some allowance for it.我只有希望公正的读者多少包涵一些。

He is quite candid with his friends.他对朋友相当坦诚。

相关单词:equitable

equitable解释:adj.公平的;公正的

equitable例句:

This is an equitable solution to the dispute. 这是对该项争议的公正解决。

Paying a person what he has earned is equitable. 酬其应得,乃公平之事。

相关单词:courteous

courteous解释:adj.彬彬有礼的,客气的

courteous例句:

Although she often disagreed with me,she was always courteous.尽管她常常和我意见不一,但她总是很谦恭有礼。

He was a kind and courteous man.他为人友善,而且彬彬有礼。

相关单词:illustrate

illustrate解释:v.举例说明,阐明;图解,加插图

illustrate例句:

The company's bank statements illustrate its success.这家公司的银行报表说明了它的成功。

This diagram will illustrate what I mean.这个图表可说明我的意思。

相关单词:conscientiousness

conscientiousness解释:责任心

conscientiousness例句:

Conscientiousness is expected of a student. 学生要诚实。 来自《简明英汉词典》

Only has the conscientiousness, diligently works, can make a more splendid result! 只有脚踏实地,努力工作,才能做出更出色的成绩! 来自互联网

相关单词:profligate

profligate解释:adj.行为不检的;n.放荡的人,浪子,肆意挥霍者

profligate例句:

This young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water.这个青年完全有可能成为十足的浪子。

Similarly Americans have been profligate in the handling of mineral resources.同样的,美国在处理矿产资源方面亦多浪费。

相关单词:alas

alas解释:int.唉(表示悲伤、忧愁、恐惧等)

alas例句:

Alas!The window is broken!哎呀!窗子破了!

Alas,the truth is less romantic.然而,真理很少带有浪漫色彩。

相关单词:pretense

pretense解释:n.矫饰,做作,借口

pretense例句:

You can't keep up the pretense any longer.你无法继续伪装下去了。

Pretense invariably impresses only the pretender.弄虚作假欺骗不了真正的行家。

相关单词:hypocrisy

hypocrisy解释:n.伪善,虚伪

hypocrisy例句:

He railed against hypocrisy and greed.他痛斥伪善和贪婪的行为。

He accused newspapers of hypocrisy in their treatment of the story.他指责了报纸在报道该新闻时的虚伪。

相关单词:arrogating

arrogating解释:v.冒称,妄取( arrogate的现在分词 );没来由地把…归属(于)

arrogating例句:

It often refers to a bunch of party-approved village apparatchiks arrogating ownership rights for themselves. 在中国,这通常代表一群当局委派的官员将产权据为己有。 来自互联网

相关单词:quarry

quarry解释:n.采石场;v.采石;费力地找

quarry例句:

Michelangelo obtained his marble from a quarry.米开朗基罗从采石场获得他的大理石。

This mountain was the site for a quarry.这座山曾经有一个采石场。

相关单词:granite

granite解释:adj.花岗岩,花岗石

granite例句:

They squared a block of granite.他们把一块花岗岩加工成四方形。

The granite overlies the older rocks.花岗岩躺在磨损的岩石上面。

相关单词:moor

moor解释:n.荒野,沼泽;vt.(使)停泊;vi.停泊

moor例句:

I decided to moor near some tourist boats.我决定在一些观光船附近停泊。

There were hundreds of the old huts on the moor.沼地上有成百上千的古老的石屋。

相关单词:vessel

vessel解释:n.船舶;容器,器皿;管,导管,血管

vessel例句:

The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。

You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。

 
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