The Most Beautiful English is a bilingual book series featuring the most beautifully-written Western classical literature from authors who have had a profound historical significance and impact in politics, science, art, philosophy, religion and other fields.
For example, one author is Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and father of the scientific method. Bacon remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method and pioneer in the scientific revolution.
These selected articles are presented with their original English texts, as well Chinese translations, making it an excellent way for children to cultivate their language abilities and morality. This volume has 281 pages.
This volume includes:
Chapter 1.1 A Meditation upon a Broomstick
Chapter 1.2 The Ephemera: An Emblem of Human Life
Chapter 1.3 Birds
Chapter 1.4 A Handful of Clay
Chapter 1.5 A Conversation with a Cat
Chapter 1.6 Seeing People off Sir Max Beerbohm
Chapter 1.7 On doors
Chapter 2.1 Dust
Chapter 2.2 On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth
Chapter 2.3 The Angler
Chapter 2.4 What I have Lived for?
Chapter 2.5 My Life Is Over
Chapter 2.6 Three Days to See
Chapter 2.7 0n Natural Death
Chapter 3.1 Of Studies
Chapter 3.2 Heine and the Philistines
Chpater 3.3 On Being Modern-Minded
Chapter 3.4 Meditation on the Moon
Chpater 3.5 What Is Science?
Chapter 3.6 A True Instinct For The Beautiful
Chapter 3.7 Journal of Solitude
Chapter 3.8 What Is Real?
Chapter 4.1 Tulips
Chapter 4.2 A Day's Ramble in London
Chpater 4.3 The Beauty of Pisa in The Mtemoon
Chapter 4.4 The Lesson of a Tree
Chapter 4.5 An Afternoon Walk in October
Chapter 4.6 Fog
Chapter 4.7 My Wood
Chapter 5.1 Of Friendship
Chapter 5.2 Of Bashfulness
Chapter 5.3 On Going a Journey
Chapter 5.4 Nature
Chapter 5.5 On Beauty
Chapter 5.6 Freedom
Chapter 5.7 Work
Chapter 5.8 Letter to Will Durant
Chapter 5.9 Three Peach Stones
Chapter 6.1 The Waste of Time
Chapter 6.2 Golden Fruit
Chapter 6.3 Teen-agers in the Looking Glass
Chapter 6.4 The Value of Time
Chapter 6.5 Pleasure Spots
Chapter 6.6 The Nightmare of Life Without Fuel
