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: An Island Tale - Page 103by Joseph Conrad - 1915 - 444 pagesFull view - About this book
| Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 444 pages
...then writing his last book. In this work, at the end of his life, he claimed for mankind that right to absolute moral and intellectual liberty of which...destructive process, a reckoning of the cost. It is not the clear-sighted_who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog,... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 442 pages
...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 - 1925 - 442 pages
...right to absolute moral and intellectual )' ^liberty of which he no longer believed them worthy .( 2b Three years of such companionship at that plastic...mistrust of life. The young man learned to reflect, ^vEch is a destructive process, a reckoning of the cost. It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world.... | |
| John Louis DiGaetani - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 198 pages
...could not refuse him a measure of greatness, for he was unhappy in a way unknown to mediocre souls .... Three years of such companionship at that plastic...is a destructive process, a reckoning of the cost." 22 Such a paternal influence incapacitated the boy in a subtle but profound way because Axel developed... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1929 - 430 pages
...then writing his last book. In this work, at the end of his life, he claimed for mankind that right to absolute moral and intellectual liberty of which...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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