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Letters on England

作者 Voltaire · 25 部分 · about 3 hours 8 minutes 阅读时间

你好,我叫 Finn,我来帮你读懂这本书。

来了,像给10岁的你讲的那样:

伏尔泰来到英格兰时是一个流亡者,离开时是一个敬佩者。在这些生动的信中,他向法国读者展示一个商人受尊敬,农民给孩子种痘,思想家自由说话,牛顿被像国王一样安葬的国家。他机智,好奇,有时淘气,他的小书悄悄帮助改变了欧洲。二十四封短函,每封都是乐趣。

整本书用英文阅读。这里是所有章节:

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章节

Introduction by Henry Morley4 min Letter 1: On the Quakers9 min Letter 2: On the Quakers4 min Letter 3: On the Quakers6 min Letter 4: On the Quakers8 min Letter 5: On the Church of England5 min Letter 6: On the Presbyterians3 min Letter 7: On the Socinians, or Arians, or Antitrinitarians4 min Letter 8: On the Parliament6 min Letter 9: On the Government8 min Letter 10: On Trade3 min Letter 11: On Inoculation8 min Letter 12: On the Lord Bacon9 min Letter 13: On Mr. Locke12 min Letter 14: On Descartes and Sir Isaac Newton10 min Letter 15: On Attraction16 min Letter 16: On Sir Isaac Newton's Optics7 min Letter 17: On Infinites in Geometry, and Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology11 min Letter 18: On Tragedy10 min Letter 19: On Comedy9 min Letter 20: On Such of the Nobility as Cultivate the Belles Lettres3 min Letter 21: On the Earl of Rochester and Mr. Waller9 min Letter 22: On Mr. Pope and Some Other Famous Poets8 min Letter 23: On the Regard That Ought to Be Shown to Men of Letters6 min Letter 24: On the Royal Society and Other Academies9 min