Three years of such companionship at that plastic and impressionable age were bound to leave in the boy a profound mistrust of life. The young man learned to reflect, which is a destructive process, a reckoning of the cost. Victory - Page 891921Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford - 1921
...that right to absolute moral and intellectual <l liberty of which he no longer believed them worthy, v Three years of such companionship at that plastic...reflect, which is a destructive process, a reckoning f of the cost. It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1929 - 396 pages
...age of eighteen, he had lived with the elder Heyst, who was then writing his last book. In this work, at the end of his life, he claimed for mankind that...destructive process, a reckoning of the cost. It is not the dear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog,... | |
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