 For a multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind; and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The most effective of these...  The Quarterly Review - Página 1291876Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 páginas
...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 páginas
...torpor. The most effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place,1 s n To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 530 páginas
...of these causes are. the great national events which are daily taking place, and the increasing [150 accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 924 páginas
...great national events which are daily taking place, and the increasing [150 accumulation of men hi cities, where the uniformity of their occupations...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1921 - 458 páginas
...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | william worsworth - 1923 - 498 páginas
...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1924 - 636 páginas
...force . to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 páginas
...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, aiting-place2 of wit, the balm of woe, 0 The poor...¿. Th' indifferent judge between the high and ^ low To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | Gilbert Murray - 1927 - 294 páginas
...combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies." A little later he speaks of " this degrading thirst for outrageous stimulation." Now the time in which... | |
 | Gilbert Murray - 1927 - 296 páginas
...combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies." A little later he speaks of " this degrading thirst for outrageous stimulation." Now the time in which... | |
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