The Conduct of Life, and Society and SolitudeMacmillan and Company, 1883 - 520 oldal |
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109. oldal
... conversation is at an end , when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities , domestic or imported , which make up our American existence . Nor do we expect anybody to be other than a faint copy of these heroes . Life is very ...
... conversation is at an end , when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities , domestic or imported , which make up our American existence . Nor do we expect anybody to be other than a faint copy of these heroes . Life is very ...
110. oldal
... conversation to the bantling he is known to fondlo . In the Norse heaven of our forefathers , Thor's house had five hundred and forty floors ; and man's house has five hundred and forty floors . His excellence is facility of adaptation ...
... conversation to the bantling he is known to fondlo . In the Norse heaven of our forefathers , Thor's house had five hundred and forty floors ; and man's house has five hundred and forty floors . His excellence is facility of adaptation ...
119. oldal
... conversation was a very great inconvenience , and , though he conceived he could order his thinking as well as another , yet ho found a great defect . In the country , in long time , for want of good conversation , one's understanding ...
... conversation was a very great inconvenience , and , though he conceived he could order his thinking as well as another , yet ho found a great defect . In the country , in long time , for want of good conversation , one's understanding ...
120. oldal
... conversation clings to the weather and the news , yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought , and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy . How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes of some great man passing incognito ...
... conversation clings to the weather and the news , yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought , and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy . How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes of some great man passing incognito ...
125. oldal
... conversation . From these it is easy , at last , to eliminate the verdict which readers passed upon it ; and that is , in the main , unfavourable . The poet , as a craftsman , is only interested in the praise accorded IV . ] 125 CULTURE .
... conversation . From these it is easy , at last , to eliminate the verdict which readers passed upon it ; and that is , in the main , unfavourable . The poet , as a craftsman , is only interested in the praise accorded IV . ] 125 CULTURE .
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