On Being Human
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ISBN10: 151515758X
ISBN13: 9781515157588
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 20 2015
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.06 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781515157588
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 20 2015
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.06 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The rarest sort of a book, says Mr. Bagehot, slyly, is a book to read; and the knack in style is to write like a human being. It is painfully evident, upon experiment, that not many of the books which come teeming from our presses every year are meant to be read. They are meant, it may be, to be pondered; it is hoped, no doubt, they may instruct, or inform, or startle, or arouse, or reform, or provoke, or amuse us; but we read, if we have the true reader's zest and plate, not to grow more knowing, but to be less pent up and bound within a little circle, -as those who take their pleasure, and not as those who laboriously seek instruction, -as a means of seeing and enjoying the world of men and affair
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