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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... imagination" — his power to experience the life of a thing in its organic complexity, to discriminate its relations, and to act upon (or reverence) its latent good. At least three respectable judges — Hazlitt, Arnold, and Leslie Stephen ...
... imagination" — his power to experience the life of a thing in its organic complexity, to discriminate its relations, and to act upon (or reverence) its latent good. At least three respectable judges — Hazlitt, Arnold, and Leslie Stephen ...
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... IMAGINATION There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feeling; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. — EDMUND BURKE, "From New to Old Whigs," in Works, Vol. H Imagination rules the world. — NAPOLEON 1 ...
... IMAGINATION There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feeling; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. — EDMUND BURKE, "From New to Old Whigs," in Works, Vol. H Imagination rules the world. — NAPOLEON 1 ...
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... imagination can be cultivated, we have yet to learn the secret. There is a danger of reason stifling the imagination To teach rigor while preserving imagination is an unsolved challenge to education. — RALPH W. GERARD, The Biological ...
... imagination can be cultivated, we have yet to learn the secret. There is a danger of reason stifling the imagination To teach rigor while preserving imagination is an unsolved challenge to education. — RALPH W. GERARD, The Biological ...
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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 |