The Minor Moralist: Some Essays on the Art of Everyday ConductE. Arnold, 1903 - 247 pàgines |
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Pàgina 7
... called idleness are the quiet blessed spaces in which he has time to think , to contemplate his relation to the universe , and to try to penetrate the great mystery of that relation . Perhaps if we too had more leisure for contemplation ...
... called idleness are the quiet blessed spaces in which he has time to think , to contemplate his relation to the universe , and to try to penetrate the great mystery of that relation . Perhaps if we too had more leisure for contemplation ...
Pàgina 8
... called upon , or even allowed , to decide what standards we will choose to have presented to us . Since we live in the West , then , let us , for the daily convenience of our own life and that of others , obey the code to which we are ...
... called upon , or even allowed , to decide what standards we will choose to have presented to us . Since we live in the West , then , let us , for the daily convenience of our own life and that of others , obey the code to which we are ...
Pàgina 26
... that underlie it . I go , for instance , to visit a noted philan- thropist . I am not there on business , so to speak , and I ought to accept that she is not professionally called upon to love me ; and I feel 26 THE MINOR MORALIST.
... that underlie it . I go , for instance , to visit a noted philan- thropist . I am not there on business , so to speak , and I ought to accept that she is not professionally called upon to love me ; and I feel 26 THE MINOR MORALIST.
Pàgina 27
... called upon to love me ; and I feel it is absurd that it should be a factor in my opinion of her real worth that she should forget to pour out my tea , so busy is she haranguing me in a dictatorial and un- smiling manner . I ought to ...
... called upon to love me ; and I feel it is absurd that it should be a factor in my opinion of her real worth that she should forget to pour out my tea , so busy is she haranguing me in a dictatorial and un- smiling manner . I ought to ...
Pàgina 60
... called to this topic notice the truth of what I have been saying - notice , for example , round a breakfast - table in a country house , how , if one person says he has been awakened by a thrush at 3 A.M. , he will in one moment be in ...
... called to this topic notice the truth of what I have been saying - notice , for example , round a breakfast - table in a country house , how , if one person says he has been awakened by a thrush at 3 A.M. , he will in one moment be in ...
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The Minor Moralist: Some Essays on the Art of Everyday Conduct Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell Visualització completa - 1903 |
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Pàgina 12 - Limited to 350 copies, of which 200 are for the use of the Committee for the Survey of the Memorials of Greater London, leaving 150 for sale.
Pàgina 28 - SYMBOLIC EDUCATION : A COMMENTARY ON FROEBEL'S "MOTHER PLAY.
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