 | 1881 - 516 pages
...about his house," said Isabel. " That is very crude of you. When you have lived as long as I, you will see that every human being has his shell, and that...shell I mean the whole envelope of circumstances. There is no such thing as an isolated man or woman ; we are each of us made up of a cluster of appurtenances.... | |
 | Henry James - American fiction - 1881 - 294 pages
...about his house," said Isabel. " That is very crude of you. When you have lived as long as I, you will see that every human being has his shell, and that...shell I mean the whole envelope of circumstances. There is no such tiling as an isolated man or woman ; we are each of us made up of a cluster of appurtenances.... | |
 | Henry James - Fiction - 1882 - 542 pages
...about his house," said Isabel. " That is very crude of you. When you have lived as long as I, you will see that every human being has his shell, and that...shell I mean the whole envelope of circumstances. There is no such thing as an isolated man or woman; we are each of us made up of a cluster of appurtenances.... | |
 | Henry James - 1908 - 458 pages
...that as an ideal." "I don't care anything about his house," said Isabel. "That's very crude of you. When you've lived as long as I you'll see that every...shell I mean the whole envelope of circumstances. There 's no such thing as an isolated man or woman; we're each of us made up of some cluster, of appurtenances.... | |
 | Henry James - Novel - 1908 - 464 pages
...that as an ideal." "I don't care anything about his house," said Isabel. "That's very crude of you. When you've lived as long as I you'll see that every...shell I mean the whole envelope of circumstances. There 's no such thing as an isolated man or woman; we're each of us made up of some cluster of appurtenances.... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - Fiction - 1917 - 652 pages
...about his house," said Isabel. "That is very crude of you. When you have lived as long as I, you will see that every human being has his shell, and that...shell I mean the whole envelope of circumstances. There is no such thing as an isolated man or woman ; we are each of us made up of a cluster of appurtenances.... | |
 | Henry James - Manners and customs - 1922 - 470 pages
...ideal." "I don't care anything about his house," said Isabel. "That 's very crude of you. When you 've lived as long as I you'll see that every human being...shell I mean the whole envelope of circumstances. There 's no such thing as an isolated man or woman; we 're each of us made up of some cluster of appurtenances.... | |
 | Honoré de Balzac - Boardinghouses - 1928 - 376 pages
...circumstances: " 'I don't care anything about his house,' said Isabel. — 'That's very crude of you. When you've lived as long as I you'll see that every human being bas his shell and that you must take thé shell into account. By thé shell I mean thé whole envelope... | |
 | Dorothea Krook-Gilead - Consciousness in literature - 1962 - 440 pages
...on the subject of personal identity: 'When you've lived as long as I", says Madame Merle to Isabel, 'you'll see that every human being has his shell and...circumstances. There's no such thing as an isolated man and woman; we're each of us made up of some cluster of appurtenances. What shall we call our " self"... | |
 | Raymond Carney - History - 1986 - 536 pages
...(or unimportance) of costume and props to the expression of the self: "When you've lived as long as 1 you'll see that every human being has his shell and...such thing as an isolated man or woman; we're each made up of some cluster of appurtenances. What shall we call our 'self? Where does it begin? Where... | |
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I you'll see that every human being has his shell and that you must take the shell into account. By the shell I mean the whole envelope of circumstances. There 's no such thing as an isolated man or woman; we're each of us made up of some cluster of appurtenances.... 
