The Value of Simplicity - Couverture souple

Barrows, Mary Minerva

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1450598404 ISBN 13 : 9781450598408

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010

Synopsis

This is an exact transcription (not a scanned image) reproduction of Mary Minerva Barrows collection of poems, essays, sermons and other items from world-noted poets, writers, philosophers, and ministers. It uses one of Ms. Barrows floral page-backgrounds as the background for all of the pages, but in B&W instead of color. Includes an introduction by Julia Ward Howe.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

We are living in an.age of show and splendour. The ambitions of society have grown with its achievements, and a spirit of excess has come to prevail among us which is likely to bring with it a deterioration of public taste and sentiment. There is need to bring to our remembrance the examples of a life less cumbered with exaggeration than that of our own time. If our Republic is to continue, we who form it must be republican in our judgment and feeling. Neither the manly nor the womanly virtues will thrive in an atmosphere that breeds perpetual unrest. We, children of the Puritans, are surely not altogether made for a career of fuss and feathers. Our living must come out of the plain earth. Our spiritual growth is maintained by certain vital principles, which cannot be discerned in the excitement of perpetual pleasure-seeking. In order to ascertain where we stand and whither we tend, we must put aside the show and glitter of mere frivolity, and give ourselves room and leisure for the lessons of deeper thought.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1450598404
• ISBN 13: 9781450598408
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 188
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg