The Art of Growing OldJ. Cape, 1944 - 218 pages |
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Page 209
... death the opposite of sweet ! - What I think I find with regard to my own life - love , or life - hold , or life - clinging , is anything but a simple discovery . It is as complicated and many - cornered as Sir Thomsa Browne's well ...
... death the opposite of sweet ! - What I think I find with regard to my own life - love , or life - hold , or life - clinging , is anything but a simple discovery . It is as complicated and many - cornered as Sir Thomsa Browne's well ...
Page 210
... death . Why , the mere nearness of death by its effect upon our fibres and tissues and upon our receptive apprehensions hardens , toughens , stiffens , and benumbs our natural reaction to the thought of this ultimate shock . The truth ...
... death . Why , the mere nearness of death by its effect upon our fibres and tissues and upon our receptive apprehensions hardens , toughens , stiffens , and benumbs our natural reaction to the thought of this ultimate shock . The truth ...
Page 216
... death - bed . You have also , I daresay , considered , with a natural if egoistical interest , the subject of graves and epitaphs . Of course we must , in the words of the greatest of all geniuses , who is neither Homer nor Shakespeare ...
... death - bed . You have also , I daresay , considered , with a natural if egoistical interest , the subject of graves and epitaphs . Of course we must , in the words of the greatest of all geniuses , who is neither Homer nor Shakespeare ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION L | 7 |
OLD AGE IN MAN AND WOMAN | 26 |
FEMININE OLD AGE AND NATURE | 37 |
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