儿童西方文化导读4

儿童西方文化导读第四册：

目录

1.To My Daughter----F.Scott Fitzgerald

2.The Declaration of Independence----Thomas Jefferson

3.On Self-Discipline----Aristotle

4.What a Baby Costs---Edhar Guest

5.If You Were----Author Unknown

6.The Character of a Happy Life---Henry Wotton

7.Thinking on Friendship---William Tyler Page

8.The Athenian Oath---Ancient Athens

9.The American's Creed---Wlliam Tyler Page

10.The Ten Commandments----The Bible

11.The Quality of Mercy---William Shakespeare

12.Too Dear For The Whistle---Benjamin Franklin

13.The Farmer and His Sons---Aesop

14.The Brave Mice---Aesop

To My Daughter

By F . Scott Fitzgerald

Things to worry about :

Worry about courage

Worry about cleanliness

Worry about efficiency

Worry about horsemanship ……

Things not to worry about :

Don’t worry about popular opinion

Don’t worry about dolls

Don’t worry about the past

Don’t worry about the future

Don’t worry about growing up

Don’t worry about anybody getting ahead of you Don’t worry about popular opinion Don’t worr y about triumph

Don’t worry about failure unless it comes through your own fault

Don’t worry about mosquitoes

Don’t worry about flies

Don’t worry about insects in general

Don’t worry about parents

Don’t worry about disappointments

Don’t worry about pleasures

Don’t worry about satisfactions

Things to think about :

What am I really aiming at ?

How good am I in comparison to my contemporaries in regard to :

(a) Scholarship

(b) Do I really understand about people and am I able to get along with them ?

(c) Am I trying to make my body a useful instrument or am I neglecting it ?

The Declaration of Independence

By Thomas Jefferson

When in the course of human events , it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another , and to assume among the Powers of the earth , the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them , a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation . — We hold these truths to be self －evident , that all men are created equal , that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights , that among these are Life , Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness . —That to secure these rights , Governments are instituted among Men , deriving their just powers form the consent of the governed , — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends , it is Right of the People to alter or to abolish it , and to institute new Government , laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form , as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness .