What is Man?: And Other EssaysHarper & Bros., 1917 - 375 páginas The Old Man had asserted that the human being is merely a machine and nothing more. |
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... JEAN THE TURNING - POINT OF MY LIFE HOW TO MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK . THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION • A SCRAP OF CURIOUS HISTORY SWITZERLAND , THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY AT THE SHRINE OF ST . WAGNER WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS ENGLISH AS SHE IS ...
... JEAN THE TURNING - POINT OF MY LIFE HOW TO MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK . THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION • A SCRAP OF CURIOUS HISTORY SWITZERLAND , THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY AT THE SHRINE OF ST . WAGNER WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS ENGLISH AS SHE IS ...
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... a system of plain cold facts that can take the cheerfulness out of it . Nothing can do that . Everything has been tried . Without success . I beg you not to be troubled . THE DEATH OF JEAN The death of Jean Clemens occurred WHAT IS MAN ?
... a system of plain cold facts that can take the cheerfulness out of it . Nothing can do that . Everything has been tried . Without success . I beg you not to be troubled . THE DEATH OF JEAN The death of Jean Clemens occurred WHAT IS MAN ?
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And Other Essays Mark Twain. THE DEATH OF JEAN The death of Jean Clemens occurred early in the morning of December 24 , 1909. Mr. Clemens was in great stress of mind when I first saw him , but a few hours later I found him writing ...
And Other Essays Mark Twain. THE DEATH OF JEAN The death of Jean Clemens occurred early in the morning of December 24 , 1909. Mr. Clemens was in great stress of mind when I first saw him , but a few hours later I found him writing ...
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... Jean's friendly German dog following . At my door Jean said , " I can't kiss you good night , father : I have a cold , and you could catch it . " I bent and kissed her hand . She was moved I saw it in her eyes - and she impulsively ...
... Jean's friendly German dog following . At my door Jean said , " I can't kiss you good night , father : I have a cold , and you could catch it . " I bent and kissed her hand . She was moved I saw it in her eyes - and she impulsively ...
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... Jean , from her babyhood , was a worshiper of Clara . Four days ago I came back from a month's holiday in Bermuda in perfected health ; but by some ac- cident the reporters failed to perceive this . Day before yesterday , letters and ...
... Jean , from her babyhood , was a worshiper of Clara . Four days ago I came back from a month's holiday in Bermuda in perfected health ; but by some ac- cident the reporters failed to perceive this . Day before yesterday , letters and ...
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Página 358 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 360 - Essays contain abundant proofs that no nice feature of character, no peculiarity in the ordering of a house, a garden, or a court-masque, could escape the notice of one whose mind was capable of taking in the whole world of knowledge.
Página 362 - And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like an insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.
Página 340 - While novelists and dramatists are constantly making mistakes as to the laws of marriage, of wills, and inheritance, to Shakespeare's law, lavishly as he expounds it, there can neither be demurrer, nor bill of exceptions, nor writ of error.
Página 54 - Diligently train your ideals upward and still upward toward a summit where you will find your chiefest pleasure in conduct which, while contenting you, will be sure to confer benefits upon your neighbor and the community.
Página 358 - ... emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
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