The Art of Growing OldJ. Cape, 1944 - 218 pages |
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... enjoyment of Nature less than when we are compelled to make difficult and momentous decisions . And it is because of their lifelong immersion in the sort of domestic worries which demand perpetual decisions and re - decisions that old ...
... enjoyment of Nature less than when we are compelled to make difficult and momentous decisions . And it is because of their lifelong immersion in the sort of domestic worries which demand perpetual decisions and re - decisions that old ...
Page 98
... enjoyment of life in general by each individual life in particular . Such a view of things , which certainly is more in harmony with Nature than any other , implies as its practical issue nothing less than this ; that a state of mental ...
... enjoyment of life in general by each individual life in particular . Such a view of things , which certainly is more in harmony with Nature than any other , implies as its practical issue nothing less than this ; that a state of mental ...
Page 206
... enjoyment ; and if this is true , and I believe it is true , there must be a residue of life - enjoyment resting in congealed security like a great crystallized yellow plum , from which , if only we had the wit to bite and squeeze , we ...
... enjoyment ; and if this is true , and I believe it is true , there must be a residue of life - enjoyment resting in congealed security like a great crystallized yellow plum , from which , if only we had the wit to bite and squeeze , we ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION L | 7 |
OLD AGE IN MAN AND WOMAN | 26 |
FEMININE OLD AGE AND NATURE | 37 |
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