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Page xxxiv
That is why habits and preferences, delusions which, inasmuch as born of our
needs, have something so much more natural and cogent about them, are
notwithstanding, in the long run, so much less important than realities, indeed
take half of ...
That is why habits and preferences, delusions which, inasmuch as born of our
needs, have something so much more natural and cogent about them, are
notwithstanding, in the long run, so much less important than realities, indeed
take half of ...
Page xlii
... to be not only claimed, but accepted, as debts of honour payable at the
expense of millions of lives and milliards of wealth ; moreover over-riding in their
pettifogging protocols, the preferences, thevital needs, of vanquished populations
.
... to be not only claimed, but accepted, as debts of honour payable at the
expense of millions of lives and milliards of wealth ; moreover over-riding in their
pettifogging protocols, the preferences, thevital needs, of vanquished populations
.
Page 10
... something larger and transcends human relations, though it takes its name
from them. Love not merely of creatures, but of anything else : places,
employments, aspects, ideas and aims ; love which means attraction, attachment,
preference, ...
... something larger and transcends human relations, though it takes its name
from them. Love not merely of creatures, but of anything else : places,
employments, aspects, ideas and aims ; love which means attraction, attachment,
preference, ...
Page 13
And as to what life demands at every turn, that is renunciation and endurance,
since every turn of life means discrimination and choice ; preference of large to
less, of future to present, of lasting satisfaction to brief or tainted rapture ; and of ...
And as to what life demands at every turn, that is renunciation and endurance,
since every turn of life means discrimination and choice ; preference of large to
less, of future to present, of lasting satisfaction to brief or tainted rapture ; and of ...
Page 33
I need not introduce you to our old friend, Clio, Muse of History by profession, but,
may I say it ? by preference and true vocation, dramatic critic. She is a great lover
of our joint shows, and has graciously undertaken a full account of this, I trust, ...
I need not introduce you to our old friend, Clio, Muse of History by profession, but,
may I say it ? by preference and true vocation, dramatic critic. She is a great lover
of our joint shows, and has graciously undertaken a full account of this, I trust, ...
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Page 276 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Page xx - Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: For thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
Page 53 - Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
Page 163 - The process of making winds and rivers into anthropomorphic gods is, for the most part, not the result of using the imagination with special vigour. It is the result of not doing so. The wind is obviously alive ; any fool can see that. Being alive, it blows ; how ? why, naturally ; just as you and I blow. It knocks things down, it shouts and dances, it whispers and talks.
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Page 57 - Do you see the Labour Leader? The other papers all refused to take Vernon Lee's and Bertrand Russell's articles.' ' SATAN (bows benignly towards DEATH). You might have trusted Satan, dear Ballet Master Death! Pity and Indignation can renew Death's Dance when all Nations have danced themselves to stumps, and the ordinary band, save perhaps Widow Fear and her children, can fiddle and blow no longer.
Page 56 - Even before either of that immortal pair had uttered a sound, the flagging Dancers. the bleeding Nations. weary of that stage slippery with blood and entrails. felt the wind of the wings of Pity and Indignation: and. in its pure breath. suddenly revived. The holy pair required no instruments. Pity merely sobbed. and her sobs were like the welling-up notes of many harps. drowning the soul in tender madness. But Indignation hissed and roared like a burning granary when the sparks crackle as they fly...
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| Title | Satan, the Waster: A Philosophic War Trilogy with Notes & Introduction |
| Author | Vernon Lee |
| Publisher | John Lane, 1920 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 1 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 298 pages |
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