Living Upstairs: Reading for Profit and PleasureE. P. Dutton & Company, Incorporated, 1942 - 256 Seiten The author uses the idea of decorating and furnishing an upper room in one's house as an allegory for developing reading habits for profit and recreation. |
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... knowledge . For knowledge is limited , whereas imagination embraces the entire world , stimulating progress , giving birth to evolution . It is , strictly speaking , a real factor in scien- tific research . " 2 Living Upstairs implies ...
... knowledge . For knowledge is limited , whereas imagination embraces the entire world , stimulating progress , giving birth to evolution . It is , strictly speaking , a real factor in scien- tific research . " 2 Living Upstairs implies ...
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... knowledge , but knowledge of phenomena ; not knowledge of the changeless , but of the changing . Theories in science come and go , and each generation of scientists begins where the precedent generation stopped . But literature , like ...
... knowledge , but knowledge of phenomena ; not knowledge of the changeless , but of the changing . Theories in science come and go , and each generation of scientists begins where the precedent generation stopped . But literature , like ...
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... Knowledge and wisdom , far from being one , Have ofttimes no connection . Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men , Wisdom in minds attentive to their own . Knowledge , a rude unprofitable mass , The mere materials ...
... Knowledge and wisdom , far from being one , Have ofttimes no connection . Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men , Wisdom in minds attentive to their own . Knowledge , a rude unprofitable mass , The mere materials ...
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A. R. Orage album ancestors beauty bedtime BOOKS AT BEDTIME centuries Chair Chambered Nautilus Chaucer cigar classic corporate junk Cressida Dante delights downstairs drama ease Edipus emotional enjoy eyes faith Family Portraits fancy fireplace Flat-Topped Desk freedom friends Greek happy heart Heaven heroes Homer Horace human Il Filostrato immortal immortal books intellectual Julius Caesar King L. T. Hobhouse learned less literary literature Living Upstairs Lucretius man's means mellow ment mental mind Molière Montaigne mood moral nature ness never night once ourselves philosophy pipe pipe smoker play poem poet poetry Preface to Morals reader Roman Saint sense Shakespeare Shifting the Furniture silence smoke Sophocles soul spirit story strigil taste temper things thinking thought tion translation Troilus Trojan Troy truth Upper Room verse vision W. S. Gilbert Window wisdom words writing wrote