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Variations - Page 120
by James Huneker - 1921 - 279 pages
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The Kindergarten for Teachers and Parents, Volume 22

1910 - 392 pages
...economy — for those of us who live in an ease-economy are but an island in the stormy ocean — and the whole atmosphere of present-day Utopian literature...mawkish and dishwatery to people who still keep a sense for life's more bitter flavors. It suggests, in truth, ubiquitous inferiority. Inferiority is always...
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Miscellaneous Pamphlets

William James - 1910 - 32 pages
...pain-and-fear economy—for those of us who live in an ease-economy are but an island in the stormy ocean—and the whole atmosphere of presentday Utopian literature...mawkish and dishwatery to people who still keep a sense for life's more bit-ter flavors. It suggests, in truth, ubiquitous inferiority. Inferiority is always...
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Miscellaneous Pamphlets

William James - 1910 - 32 pages
...economy — for those of us who live in an ease-economy are but an island in the stormy ocean — and the whole atmosphere of presentday utopian literature...mawkish and dishwatery to people who still keep a sense for life's more bitter flavors. It suggests, in truth, ubiquitous inferiority. Inferiority is always...
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Essays for College Men: 2d Series

Norman Foerster - 1915 - 406 pages
...economy — for those of us who live in an easeeconomy are but an island in the stormy ocean — and the whole atmosphere of present-day Utopian literature...mawkish and dishwatery to people who still keep a sense for life's more bitter flavors. It suggests, in truth, ubiquitous inferiority. Inferiority is always...
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Unicorns

James Huneker - 1917 - 386 pages
...shallow? It need be neither sordid nor didactic. William James put the matter in a nutshell when he wrote that "the whole atmosphere of present-day Utopian...people who still keep a sense of life's more bitter flavours." And on this fundamentally sound note I must end my little sermon — for I find that I have...
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Facts, Thought, and Imagination: A Book on Writing, Volume 10

Henry Seidel Canby, Frederick Erastus Pierce, Willard Higley Durham - 1917 - 386 pages
...economy — for those of us who live in an ease-economy are but an island in the stormy ocean — and the whole atmosphere of present-day Utopian literature...mawkish and dishwatery to people who still keep a sense for life's more bitter flavors. It suggests, in truth, ubiquitous inferiority. Inferiority is always...
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Essays for College English

James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 pages
...economy — for those of us who live in an ease economy are but an island in the stormy ocean — and the whole atmosphere of present-day utopian literature...mawkish and dishwatery to people who still keep a sense for life's more bitter flavors. It suggests, in truth, ubiquitous inferiority. Inferiority is always...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...economy — for those of us who live in an ease economy are but an island in the stormy ocean — and the whole atmosphere of present-day Utopian literature...mawkish and dishwatery to people who still keep a sense for life's more bitter flavors. It suggests, in truth, ubiquitous inferiority. Inferiority is always...
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International Conciliation, Issues 16-39

1909 - 512 pages
...economy — for those of us who live in an ease-economy are but an island in the stormy ocean — and the whole atmosphere of presentday utopian literature...mawkish and dishwatery to people who still keep a sense for life's more bitter flavors. It suggests, in truth, ubiquitous inferiority. Inferiority is always...
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No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture ...

T. J. Jackson Lears - 1994 - 397 pages
...Lord or fear of the enemy; they seemed concerned only with this-worldly well-being. As James said, "the whole atmosphere of present-day utopian literature...mawkish and dishwatery to people who still keep a sense for life's more bitter flavors." Drawing on the economic theories of Simon Nelson Patten, James suggested...
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