Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern AgeSimon and Schuster, 2002年4月23日 - 351页 In the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Will Durant traces the lives and ideas of those who have helped to define civilization, from its dawn to the beginning of the modern world. Heroes of History is a book of life-enhancing wisdom and optimism, complete with Durant's wit, knowledge, and unique ability to explain events and ideas in simple, exciting terms. It is the lessons of our heritage passed on for the edification and benefit of future generations—a fitting legacy from America's most beloved historian and philosopher. Will Durant's popularity as America's favorite teacher of history and philosophy remains undiminished by time. His books are accessible to readers of every kind, and his unique ability to compress complicated ideas and events into a few pages without ever "talking down" to the reader, enhanced by his memorable wit and a razor-sharp judgment about men and their motives, made all of his books huge bestsellers. Heroes of History carries on this tradition of making scholarship and philosophy understandable to the general reader, and making them good reading, as well. At the dawn of a new millennium and the beginning of a new century, nothing could be more appropriate than this brilliant book that examines the meaning of human civilization and history and draws from the experience of the past the lessons we need to know to put the future into context and live in confidence, rather than fear and ignorance. |
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第17页
... leave every girl at the mercy of every seducer, every wife at the mercy of her husband's secret itching for the charms of variety and youth, and would make not only every park, but every street, unsafe for any woman. Those powerful ...
... leave every girl at the mercy of every seducer, every wife at the mercy of her husband's secret itching for the charms of variety and youth, and would make not only every park, but every street, unsafe for any woman. Those powerful ...
第22页
... in the king's services, Cannot even plant our millet and rice. What will our parents have to rely on? O thou distant and azure Heaven: When shall all this end? . . . What leaves have not turned purple? What man is not 22 Will Durant.
... in the king's services, Cannot even plant our millet and rice. What will our parents have to rely on? O thou distant and azure Heaven: When shall all this end? . . . What leaves have not turned purple? What man is not 22 Will Durant.
第23页
... leaves have not turned purple? What man is not torn from his wife? Mercy be on us soldiers!— Are we not also men? One soldier returned, as we gather from the happiest of these odes, beautifully translated by Helen Waddell: The morning ...
... leaves have not turned purple? What man is not torn from his wife? Mercy be on us soldiers!— Are we not also men? One soldier returned, as we gather from the happiest of these odes, beautifully translated by Helen Waddell: The morning ...
第29页
... of parentage and home! In the land of Wu the mulberry leaves are green, And thrice the silkworms have gone to sleep. In East Lu, where my family stays, I wonder who is sowing those fields of ours. I Heroes of History 29.
... of parentage and home! In the land of Wu the mulberry leaves are green, And thrice the silkworms have gone to sleep. In East Lu, where my family stays, I wonder who is sowing those fields of ours. I Heroes of History 29.
第30页
... leaves and branches waving in the blue mist. It is the tree I planted before my parting three years ago. The peach-tree has grown now as tall as the tavern roof, While I have wandered about without returning. Ping-yang, my pretty ...
... leaves and branches waving in the blue mist. It is the tree I planted before my parting three years ago. The peach-tree has grown now as tall as the tavern roof, While I have wandered about without returning. Ping-yang, my pretty ...
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Philosophy and Poetry in the Old Testament | 55 |
The Road to Pericles | 67 |
The Golden Age of Athens | 78 |
The Human Christ | 159 |
The Growth of the Church | 170 |
The Renaissance I Around Leonardo | 184 |
The Renaissance II Rome | 214 |
The Renaissance III Venetian Sunset | 236 |
The Reformation I Wyclif and Erasmus | 245 |
The Reformation II 151755 Luther and the Communists | 267 |
The Catholic Reformation 151763 | 293 |
From Plato to Alexander | 94 |
The Roman Republic | 110 |
The Roman Revolution | 124 |
The Roman Empire 27 BCAD 180 | 141 |
Nero and Aurelius | 149 |
Shakespeare and Bacon | 306 |
Index | 331 |
About the Author | 349 |
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