Letters to XConstable, 1919 - 298 páginas |
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... thought . No , the question is not - form or no form , but whether form is a living or a dead thing . I fancy that the people who flout it find it convenient to regard it as dead . Form , indeed , is vision contained and made manifest ...
... thought . No , the question is not - form or no form , but whether form is a living or a dead thing . I fancy that the people who flout it find it convenient to regard it as dead . Form , indeed , is vision contained and made manifest ...
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... thought good to feed it from all the vast store - houses of his learning and imagina- tion . And Montaigne a cynic ? In life , just as the honest man is so frequently taken for a fool , so a tolerant man passes for a cynic . Montaigne ...
... thought good to feed it from all the vast store - houses of his learning and imagina- tion . And Montaigne a cynic ? In life , just as the honest man is so frequently taken for a fool , so a tolerant man passes for a cynic . Montaigne ...
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... thought and convic- tion ? Would ye clap a solid and lugubrious top - hat on his hyacinthine pate ? No , sir . Let him only be a novelty and he is spontaneous as well ( of course ) as a genius . Let him claim the sun for his sister ...
... thought and convic- tion ? Would ye clap a solid and lugubrious top - hat on his hyacinthine pate ? No , sir . Let him only be a novelty and he is spontaneous as well ( of course ) as a genius . Let him claim the sun for his sister ...
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... thought and feeling are transformed under such a pressure , so widely suggestive a persuasion ; no wonder that in such downy imprisonment the natural attitudes and opinions of man to and about mankind never escape except by accident ...
... thought and feeling are transformed under such a pressure , so widely suggestive a persuasion ; no wonder that in such downy imprisonment the natural attitudes and opinions of man to and about mankind never escape except by accident ...
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... thought . Its " snippets " alone , I truly believe , are responsible for the lowered standards of conversation in home and street , for that curious childishness and inconsequence of our people which , with manhood , refuses to put away ...
... thought . Its " snippets " alone , I truly believe , are responsible for the lowered standards of conversation in home and street , for that curious childishness and inconsequence of our people which , with manhood , refuses to put away ...
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