Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 270F. Jefferies, 1891 |
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... thought he rose to the conception that " the highest life is the art to live , and that both men , women , and books are equally essential ingredients of such a life . " In small sorrows we resort to books ; but in the last resort we ...
... thought he rose to the conception that " the highest life is the art to live , and that both men , women , and books are equally essential ingredients of such a life . " In small sorrows we resort to books ; but in the last resort we ...
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... thought . With others the conditions are reversed . I have referred to our modern feverish life as being unfavourable to conversation . There are other social con- ditions to be considered . Just as a certain combination of gases ...
... thought . With others the conditions are reversed . I have referred to our modern feverish life as being unfavourable to conversation . There are other social con- ditions to be considered . Just as a certain combination of gases ...
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... thought , and imagined . For us , of course , it is impossible to imagine life without such a record . Society has been called " a strong solution of books . " Science and letters agree in representations of life without literature as ...
... thought , and imagined . For us , of course , it is impossible to imagine life without such a record . Society has been called " a strong solution of books . " Science and letters agree in representations of life without literature as ...
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... thoughts . Knowledge we may get from books , but wit and humour - what are these at second hand ? Often but funeral baked meats . We may , so far as conversation is concerned , be righteous overmuch . There has been a recent lamentation ...
... thoughts . Knowledge we may get from books , but wit and humour - what are these at second hand ? Often but funeral baked meats . We may , so far as conversation is concerned , be righteous overmuch . There has been a recent lamentation ...
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... thoughts , and even all serious reflec- tions and scientific inquiries , simply employing yourself in doing . little more than gazing on the colour of a flower , the bird in its flight , and such matters , which require no attention ...
... thoughts , and even all serious reflec- tions and scientific inquiries , simply employing yourself in doing . little more than gazing on the colour of a flower , the bird in its flight , and such matters , which require no attention ...
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Page 486 - There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell, once upon a time, divine as the Vale of Tempe; you might have seen the Gods there morning and evening — Apollo and all the sweet Muses of the light — walking in fair procession on the lawns of it, and to and fro among the pinnacles of its crags.
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Page 9 - In this time, his house being within little more than ten miles of Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that university, who found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in him, so infinite a fancy, bound in by a most logical ratiocination, such a vast knowledge, that he was not ignorant in...