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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... matter much about man . " » 2 That thought is paramount in the Upper Room . Not by bread alone does man live . Bread we keep where it ought to be kept , in the bread - basket downstairs . Our need for bread we share with the animals ...
... matter much about man . " » 2 That thought is paramount in the Upper Room . Not by bread alone does man live . Bread we keep where it ought to be kept , in the bread - basket downstairs . Our need for bread we share with the animals ...
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... matter what you read . That theory is a logical derivation from the pedagogical principle , unhappily still potent , that all subjects in the curriculum are of equal educative value , that the boy who studies Euclid and Macbeth is ...
... matter what you read . That theory is a logical derivation from the pedagogical principle , unhappily still potent , that all subjects in the curriculum are of equal educative value , that the boy who studies Euclid and Macbeth is ...
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... . The potter is molded by the clay he kneads . Minute specialization , no matter how erudite and kudos- crowned , can demand too big a price . Why be a mar- tyr in a cause not worth it ? Why burrow 209 SHIFTING THE FURNITURE.
... . The potter is molded by the clay he kneads . Minute specialization , no matter how erudite and kudos- crowned , can demand too big a price . Why be a mar- tyr in a cause not worth it ? Why burrow 209 SHIFTING THE FURNITURE.
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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