A Writer's Notebook |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 56
Page 66
... sense of taste is more important than the æsthetic instinct . A man can get through life more easily with- out an æsthetic sense than without a sense of taste . If , as seems reasonable , the various faculties of man are ranked ...
... sense of taste is more important than the æsthetic instinct . A man can get through life more easily with- out an æsthetic sense than without a sense of taste . If , as seems reasonable , the various faculties of man are ranked ...
Page 72
... sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking . It is made up of the prej- udices of childhood , the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers . Common - sense makes a ...
... sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking . It is made up of the prej- udices of childhood , the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers . Common - sense makes a ...
Page 157
... sense of sin . Not only is the Russian constantly telling you that he is a sinner , but apparently he feels it , and he suffers from very lively pangs of remorse . It is a curious trait and I have tried to account for it . Of course we ...
... sense of sin . Not only is the Russian constantly telling you that he is a sinner , but apparently he feels it , and he suffers from very lively pangs of remorse . It is a curious trait and I have tried to account for it . Of course we ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Apia asked beauty Bermondsey blue boat casuarina Cesare Borgia character Chinese clean-shaven clouds coconut colour copra crowd dark dead death dhoty Dostoievsky dressed Dyak emotion English Eugène Sue eyes face feeling fellow felt Fiji fish France French friends gave girl give green grey hair happy head heart human humour imagination impression island Jeremy Taylor Jules Renard laugh lava-lavas lived look Malay married mind native never night nose novels one's Papeete pass passion persons play pleasure reef river round Russian sail sarongs Savinkov seemed sense side silent smile soul story strange Suva talk tall tell tennis shirt Tetiaroa thin thing thought tion told took toothbrush moustache trees turn veranda walk wife woman women words writers young youth