Colour faded, gilt lettering on spine faded , edges rubbed,has become damp at some point and stained as a result page edges browned , clean inside,previous owners name on front endpaper . Therefore the worst kind of person is the one who puts on a false front to the world and is condemned to live alone and unloved.Truth of intercourse is more than just refraining from lies and requires the right balance between “the curt, pithy speaker” and the “wordy, prolegomenous babbler”. No missing pages. Read 6 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. "Virginibus Puerisque" occupies the first four chapters and opening 80 pages with 11 further "papers" covering his other observations. in no dj Red c w/gold lettering, top 1/3 of spine missing, reinforced neatly w/invisible tape; inside bright & tight 256. Hardcover. A Raeburn portrait shows the subject unself-consciously busy in a world of his or her own.Not everything about the exhibition is excellent. Paperback. Virginibus puerisque.
They distrust their impulses, and become “recreant to Pan”.The explanations of science, true in their way, do not always answer our experience of life. For who knows what a rough, warfaring existence lies before them in the future?”One doesn’t go on a walking tour to enjoy the landscape but to experience “certain jolly humours” that vary through the day, each one delightful in itself and leading to the next pleasure.
Still, where there is strong affection such difficulties can be overcome, especially because the heart of the other person is ready to forgive. Early Reprint. No dust jacket as issued. 263 p. From the Biographical Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Covers show light edge wear. Condition: Used. Between old friends and lovers, only the merest word or phrase is needed, and much is conveyed through the body, beyond the power of words to express. Hardcover. “With a gleeful and an angry look”, he can be found in the woods by anyone open to his presence.Pan’s pipes put “a spirit of gladness in all hearts” in a vast variety of ways, but they also stir up destructive forces throughout the world. (We are not talking here of “catchwords”, opinions imposed on us or adopted without thinking, but about views carefully weighed and considered. Faith knows there is both goodness and weakness in the spouse and prompts us to continue to try better in our marriage. ; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed!
Pages are clean and unmarked.
The “palpitating image of our estate” found “by means of art” in the figure of Pan, represents the “troubled and uncertain element in which we dwell” in a deeply satisfying way.Cities have always faced the problem of how to light their streets. Despite the misery that occurred between decks, stories of great naval battles give us our most moving tales of heroism. If a doubt should arise in these intimacies, then the confidence in the other is destroyed. In addition to the normal library markings and attachments, there is light water marks and light wrinkles on most of the bottom margins and about half of the top margins. The dust jacket is missing.
“To marry is to domesticate the Recording Angel.”It is harder to be virtuous in marriage since different social customs have developed different ideals in the man and the woman, and both sets of ideals must be accommodated.
Truth needs both to be discovered and then “justly and exactly uttered”. Such heroic tales serve us better than “a-curate-and-tea-party novel” or a book of political economy, since they not only give courage to soldiers going into battle, but “send back merchant clerks with more heart and spirit to their book-keeping by double entry”.True heroes have acted not for fame (as they themselves sometimes say) but “because they liked to do things nobly for their own satisfaction”. But though adults live closer to the world of fact, they have lost the ability to weave imaginative enchantments over the world.
“To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have.”The world remains dull unless we bring to it “desire and curiosity”, which always find new attractions at each stage of life. Even such hopeless striving does good in the world b spreading “something brave and spirited”, encouraging others and graceful in itself.We act in life as if our goal was to attain as many things as possible.
Women, however, receive through marriage more freedom and more opportunity.People marry not for love (“too violent a passion to make […] a good domestic sentiment”) but for “community of taste”, especially in everyday habits, rather than in art or philosophy.