The Art of Growing OldJ. Cape, 1944 - 218 pages |
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Page 31
... matter of lamps and newspapers and screens and footstools and music and card games and library books can evoke , in his retirement from Law , or Business , or Politics , or Medicine or Public Administration , or the supervision of ...
... matter of lamps and newspapers and screens and footstools and music and card games and library books can evoke , in his retirement from Law , or Business , or Politics , or Medicine or Public Administration , or the supervision of ...
Page 61
... Matter ? And how does this ' matter ' press upon us ? Does it not do so in the shape of pain and pleasure , intermittently experienced , and mingled with each other in varied proportions ? Alone with this strange whirling of mysterious ...
... Matter ? And how does this ' matter ' press upon us ? Does it not do so in the shape of pain and pleasure , intermittently experienced , and mingled with each other in varied proportions ? Alone with this strange whirling of mysterious ...
Page 181
... matter of analysing humour it is obvious how much weight we are forced to concede to old age merely on the strength of its long experience . The longer a thing has had time to display itself in all its varieties and contradictions and ...
... matter of analysing humour it is obvious how much weight we are forced to concede to old age merely on the strength of its long experience . The longer a thing has had time to display itself in all its varieties and contradictions and ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION L | 7 |
OLD AGE IN MAN AND WOMAN | 26 |
FEMININE OLD AGE AND NATURE | 37 |
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