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... express finer shades of meaning and feeling , we restrict our vocabulary to the usage of the man who confines his reading to the newspaper and to magazines . For the exchange of their thoughts these prac- tical men require only a simple ...
... express finer shades of meaning and feeling , we restrict our vocabulary to the usage of the man who confines his reading to the newspaper and to magazines . For the exchange of their thoughts these prac- tical men require only a simple ...
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... express the value he set upon leisure ; his garden was eloquent , it chanted the praises of leisure with branch and leaf , with blossom and fruit , with sunshine and shadow , with anemones and pop- pies . Then , as now , the garden was ...
... express the value he set upon leisure ; his garden was eloquent , it chanted the praises of leisure with branch and leaf , with blossom and fruit , with sunshine and shadow , with anemones and pop- pies . Then , as now , the garden was ...
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... express these ideas in words , fall upon similes and metaphors , and lose themselves in the sweets of rhetoric and euphuism . Instead of going to their books to show what I mean , I will cite a paragraph of an altruistic sermon that I ...
... express these ideas in words , fall upon similes and metaphors , and lose themselves in the sweets of rhetoric and euphuism . Instead of going to their books to show what I mean , I will cite a paragraph of an altruistic sermon that I ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE PREFACE | 9 |
PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS | 13 |
ALTRUISM | 17 |
Copyright | |
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adjectives admirable altruistic Athenians Athens Beatrice Webb beauty better blessed blessedness body Boétie Cephissus Ceramicus CHAPTER Charles Lamb Christian ciples Confucius conversation creed cultivate curean curus death delightful desires disciples divine Doctor Johnson doctrine Don Quixote drink duty egoist emotional enjoy enjoyment Epicurean book Epicurean philosophy Epicurus Epicurus's ethics evil fashion fastidiousness fear flowers Forsyte Saga friends friendship frugality garden gentle gentleman gods Greek Guy Mannering Harunobu heart HENRY DWIGHT SEDGWICK Hermarchus human ideas Idomeneus immortal individual intellectual leisure live look Macedon man's Master means ments mind moral moralists Mount Pentelicus munity nation nature needs ness never pain pleas pleasant pleasure practise Praxiteles prejudices reason religion sect sensation SHAL social society soul spirit Stoic sweet talk tastes teaching theory things thought tion true truth virtue wisdom wise wish words young