But marriage, if comfortable, is not at all heroic. It certainly narrows and damps the spirits of generous men. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. Varia. - - Page 21by Agnes Repplier - 1897 - 232 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1880 - 470 pages
...marriage, if comfortable, is not at all heroic. It certainly narrows and damps the spirits of generous men. In marriage a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. It is not only when Ludgate misallies himself with Rosamond Vincy, but when Ladislaw marries above... | |
| Arthur Patchett Martin - 1885 - 262 pages
...marriage, if comfortable, is not at all heroic. It certainly narrows and damps the spirits of generous men. In marriage a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. It is not only when Lydgate misallies himself with Rosamond Vincy, but when Ladislaw marries above... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1890 - 300 pages
...marriage, if comfortable, is not at all heroic. It certainly narrows and damps the spirits of generous men. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. It is not only when Lydgate misallies himself with Rosamond Vincy, but when Ladislaw marries above... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1893 - 250 pages
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| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pages
...marriage, if comfortable, is not at all heroic. It certainly narrows and damps the spirits of generous men. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish,* and...undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.' It is not only when Lydgate misallies himself with Rosamond Vincy, but when Ladislaw marries above... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 388 pages
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| American periodicals - 1897 - 1016 pages
...marriage a man becomes slack and selfish, "and undergoes a fatty degenLIVltfG AOE. VOL. XVI. 812 eration of his moral being." Which is precisely the lesson thundered at us very unpleasantly by Mr. Rudyard Kipling in "The Gadsbys." Yon may carve it on his tomhstone, you may cut it on his card, That... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - Short stories, English - 1901 - 302 pages
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| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1906 - 316 pages
...marriage, if comfortable, is not at all heroic. It certainly narrows and damps the spirit of generous men. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. . . . The air of the fireside withers out all the fire wildMar riage— its Beneficent Effects Its... | |
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