My brother, I remember, learned Latin out of Descartes' " Meditationes, " and I, in place of the little tales which children are usually told to read, had nothing more charming than a translation of the " Gesta Romanorum" .

我记得，我的兄弟是从笛卡尔的《沉思录》中学习拉丁文的，而我，除了孩子们通常被告知要阅读的小故事之外，没有什么比《罗马纪事》的翻译更迷人的了。