Infinite riches: gems from a lifetime of readingMcGraw-Hill, 1979 - 588 páginas Elizabeth I's last great speech, an account of Marco Polo's return to Venice, and writings by Mencken, Wilde, and Twain are among the selections included in a collection of excerpts that represents Rosten's lifelong love for the printed word |
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... experience, as he should have done, in the framing of his decisions and axioms; but, having first determined the question according to his will, he then resorted to experience, and bending her into conformity with his precepts, led her ...
... experience, as he should have done, in the framing of his decisions and axioms; but, having first determined the question according to his will, he then resorted to experience, and bending her into conformity with his precepts, led her ...
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... EXPERIENCE Our experience in the past can be a proof of nothing for the future but upon a supposition that there is a resemblance betwixt them. This, therefore, is a point which can admit of no proof at all, and which we take for ...
... EXPERIENCE Our experience in the past can be a proof of nothing for the future but upon a supposition that there is a resemblance betwixt them. This, therefore, is a point which can admit of no proof at all, and which we take for ...
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... experience, that of the rational and conceptual. — JOHN DEWEY, Reconstruction in Philosophy The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. — GEORGE SANTAYANA, Character and Opinion in the United ...
... experience, that of the rational and conceptual. — JOHN DEWEY, Reconstruction in Philosophy The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. — GEORGE SANTAYANA, Character and Opinion in the United ...
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A. J. P. TAYLOR ALBERT EINSTEIN American ARISTOTLE BAMBER GASCOIGNE beauty believe BENJAMIN BERTRAND RUSSELL Capitalism century Chinese Christian civilization Copyright court death democracy dream earth economic enemy England English Essays Europe everything excerpts existence experience eyes face fact faith feel freedom G. K. CHESTERTON GEORGE GEORGE MIKES H. L. MENCKEN hand happy head human ideas imagination JAMES Jews JOHN King knew LASSWELL Lenin LEONARD MOSLEY letter liberty Lincoln live look Lord MARK TWAIN means mind modern moral Napoleon nation nature never night palace passion peace person philosopher political reason religion revolution Roman sense sexual SIGMUND FREUD slave social society speech Stalin talk things THOMAS THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thought tion truth turn Venice VOLTAIRE WINSTON CHURCHILL women words young
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Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |