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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... wisdom . But , probably by the contemporaries of Cleobulus , certainly by us , the motto has received no widespread acceptance . As Mr. Robert Lynd reminds us , “ There has always been a school of paradox - makers who have praised ...
... wisdom . But , probably by the contemporaries of Cleobulus , certainly by us , the motto has received no widespread acceptance . As Mr. Robert Lynd reminds us , “ There has always been a school of paradox - makers who have praised ...
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... wisdom books of the Bible are match- less . Proverbs , Wisdom , Ecclesiastes , Ecclesiasticus are treasuries of shrewd observation , practical good sense , spiritual insight and felicitous phrasing ; all the more remarkable this last ...
... wisdom books of the Bible are match- less . Proverbs , Wisdom , Ecclesiastes , Ecclesiasticus are treasuries of shrewd observation , practical good sense , spiritual insight and felicitous phrasing ; all the more remarkable this last ...
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... 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 with which wisdom ...
... 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 with which wisdom ...
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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