The Art of Growing OldJ. Cape, 1944 - 218 pages |
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Page 130
... imaginative image of what we desire to happen , and therefore choose shall happen , create the event . How was it brought about , in an incredibly remote past , that the race of termites should be able to give to their ant - heap ...
... imaginative image of what we desire to happen , and therefore choose shall happen , create the event . How was it brought about , in an incredibly remote past , that the race of termites should be able to give to their ant - heap ...
Page 152
... imaginative vista — is as good , if not better , than to be carried on the back of Pegasus . But whether rough or smooth , easy or retarded , any journey in com- pany with the oldest as well as the greatest , of the world's poets is ...
... imaginative vista — is as good , if not better , than to be carried on the back of Pegasus . But whether rough or smooth , easy or retarded , any journey in com- pany with the oldest as well as the greatest , of the world's poets is ...
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... imaginative flights , as we gaze through our windows , flights across the two opposing landscapes that lie outstretched before us , one of them illumined by the rising sun of all man's hopes , and the other , where the twilight falls ...
... imaginative flights , as we gaze through our windows , flights across the two opposing landscapes that lie outstretched before us , one of them illumined by the rising sun of all man's hopes , and the other , where the twilight falls ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION L | 7 |
OLD AGE IN MAN AND WOMAN | 26 |
FEMININE OLD AGE AND NATURE | 37 |
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