Knowledge is Power: A Guide to Personal CultureHutchinson, 1935 - 360 pages |
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Page 85
... passion , if one may talk of passion in regard to such a sober - minded man . His heart was full of gladness when the sun was shining and Dame Nature was in a pleasant mood . Flowers , birds and winds , the sights and scents and sounds ...
... passion , if one may talk of passion in regard to such a sober - minded man . His heart was full of gladness when the sun was shining and Dame Nature was in a pleasant mood . Flowers , birds and winds , the sights and scents and sounds ...
Page 142
... passion ; the feuds between Norman and Saxon are imbued with vivid interest , the Crusades become a moving drama of stirring adventures , and England of the olden time does not seem so far back in the dim , dark past , but is seen in ...
... passion ; the feuds between Norman and Saxon are imbued with vivid interest , the Crusades become a moving drama of stirring adventures , and England of the olden time does not seem so far back in the dim , dark past , but is seen in ...
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... passion , moulded in the furnace of intellectual agony , beautiful in its chiselled perfectness , refined into an ascetic spirituality devoid of every trace of fleshliness . And , as one looks upon its reproduction , the thought of all ...
... passion , moulded in the furnace of intellectual agony , beautiful in its chiselled perfectness , refined into an ascetic spirituality devoid of every trace of fleshliness . And , as one looks upon its reproduction , the thought of all ...
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