Download or read book In Quest of the Beautiful Classic Reprint written by William Repton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In Quest of the Beautiful What is the purpose of your life? Has it a purpose? Or, again, have you created a purpose for it? Perhaps you have reached the goal of your desire, and found it as empty as all the illusions of Ecclesiastes! Or, perhaps, you have rested in your poverty, with the illusions of riches yet to come. Or, again, in a fit of despair, you have said that there is no purpose to your life. Whatever your conclusions, who am I to judge you, or anyone else? Let me stand in the shadow of Flaubert, and let him speak: "The sight of a man daring to judge his neighbour would send me into convulsions of laughter, if it did not arouse my disgust and pity." With the Confucian doctrine of "fraternal deference " we will each go our own way - or ways. Astrologers state that, when a human being is born, a chord is struck through heaven and earth. As far as I can discover, they do not explain, or define, the phenomenon attending the birth of consciousness. I do not blame them for this or any other omission. They will not want to burn me, or ostracise me, for this difference of opinion with them. They will not look on me as a lost soul if I actively oppose them. The birth of consciousness is nothing to those who are only capable of seeing with the eye instead of through it. In the middle of the journey of our life I came to Myself in a dark wood, where the straight way was lost. If I have lost the straight way at the zenith of my life, I have the memory of it. With the birth of consciousness, about the age of five, I had a glimpse of the Beautiful; and in many protean shapes I have seen it since, and, if my body has been over many crooked paths, consciousness and its proximity to the Beautiful have traced a straight road in my lonely quest. There are compensations for the responsibility of living; there are quiet consolations which are our very own property; and both may be claimed, if life is regarded as a gift held for a little space in eternity. There may he aims more noble, more lofty, and even more clearly defined than that of my quest. An individual may dedicate his life to the service of others in science, or, like the giants of history, in leading an unpopular cause, that, a hundred years later, is quietly absorbed and taken for granted by society with scarce a "thank you." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Quest of the Beautiful Classic Reprint written by Elizabeth Arden and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Quest of the Beautiful Witness Eve, and her lovely elder sister, Lilith. Lilith and her beauty are a legend we would not be with out; she is the glowing mystery that lies back of the beginning of the race. Lilith without beauty would be life without meaning, stars Without light. Eve, we feel, must have been beautiful or that lovely lost garden east of the sun and West of the moon would not have evolved her as its crowning glory. Envious, creeping Wisdom gliding along the apple branch to drive out beauty, so that men might care only for knowledge, would not have found her worthy of his hate. Beauty is the shimmering, high answer to the deep hunger of mortals; beauty of living, beauty that is mystery and poetry and faith, beauty of line and color. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book In Quest of the Quaint Classic Reprint written by Eliza B. Chase and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In Quest of the Quaint In the mellow light of sunset Chateau Carton, the great unfinished barrack, put on an air Of state, and one might say even wore an aspect of comfort and repose such was the glamor of that softened light when the weary travelers set foot within the bare walls Of that hostelry on the uppermost rim Of New Brunswick, nearly three hundred miles north Of St. John, their immediate decision being that nothing short Of desperation and starvation should drive them from SO beautiful a spot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Quest of the Quaint Classic Reprint written by Virginia Robie and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Quest of the Quaint The Quest of the Quaint was written by Virginia Robie in 1916. This is a 324 page book, containing 52930 words and 23 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Quest Flower Classic Reprint written by Clara Louise Burnham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Quest Flower Oh, yes, I would, replied the little girl; for it was vacation and she wanted an outing. Uncle Dick has a big yard, and Ella and I can have fun there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Quest Eternal Classic Reprint written by William Otis Lillibridge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Quest Eternal Out of doors, in the sleepy heat of the summer afternoon, the indolent little prairie city went dog gedly about its task of working against time. Six o'clock, the hour when the waterworks Whistle and the siren on the one companion brick factory would sound relief, remained yet dim in the distance and from end to end of the main business street the dy namo of human activity hummed low. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Quest of the Face Classic Reprint written by Stephen Graham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Quest of the Face The quest OF the face was my last writing before entering the Army. The supplementary studies belong to varying times and places in my life and wanderings. The illustrations are mostly from Russian sources, and I hope that the sugges tion of their power and beauty may remind some that though Russia seems to have fallen there is an imperishable Russia which cannot fall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Heart of Nature Or the Quest for Natural Beauty Classic Reprint written by Francis Younghusband and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Heart of Nature, or the Quest for Natural Beauty I am conscious of having myself made most inadequate use of the splendid opportunities my travels afforded me of seeing the Beauty of Nature. So I am all the more anxious that those following after me should not, by like omission, commit the same sin against themselves and against our country. We owe it to ourselves and to mankind to give full rein to our instinctive love of Natural Beauty, and to train and refine every inclination and capacity we have for appreciating it till we are able to see all those finer glories of which we now discern only the first faint glow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Angela s Quest Classic Reprint written by Lilian Bell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Angela's Quest About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Quest of the Golden Pearl Classic Reprint written by J. R. Hutchinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Quest of the Golden Pearl A sturdy, thick-set young fellow of seventeen was Jack, with low-hung fists of formidable size, and a love for anything in the Shape of a row that constantly led him into scrapes. Hot-headed though he was, he was one of the most good humoured, well-meaning young fellows in the World, who, while he would not hurt a fly if he could help it, was always ready to fight in defence of his own or another's rights. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Fenton s Quest Vol 2 of 3 Classic Reprint written by M. E. Braddon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fenton's Quest, Vol. 2 of 3 He rang a bell, which had a hoarse rusty sound, as if it had not been rung very often of late; and after he had waited for some minutes, and rung a second time, a countrified-looking woman emerged from the house, and came Slowly along the wide moss-grown gravel-walk towards him. She stared at him with the broad open stare of rusticity, and did not make any attempt to open the gate, but stood with a great key in her hand, waiting for Gilbert to speak. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Through Western Madagascar in Quest of the Golden Bean Classic Reprint written by Walter D. Marcuse and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Through Western Madagascar in Quest of the Golden Bean I have been so deeply impressed by this veritable romance of trade that I feel con fident that the history of civilisation in Western Madagascar, if such a history ever be written, will be less a recital of the achieve ments of French military and civil adminis tration than a story of the mysterious appearance on this coast of a beautiful bean, its sudden bound into popularity in Europe and America as a food-stuff, and the subse quent march of material progress and mental enlightenment along the path first laid open by the irrepressible energy of modern com merce. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Quest of the Gilt Edged Girl Classic Reprint written by Richard De Lyrienne and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Quest of the Gilt Edged Girl It is pleasant to be a poet, especially a good-looking poet, with a picturesque name. You will gather as much from my Quest, which may shock the Daily Chronicle, the Saturday Review, and Lady Henry Somerset; but which should make good reading for Max Beerbohm, Herbert Vivian, Marie Lloyd, and the rest of the New Rationalists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Monsieur Beaucaire written by Booth Tarkington and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Monsieur Beaucaire: The Beautiful Lady; His Own People What words! No, no, no! No killing! A such word to a such host! No, no, not mur-r-der; only disgrace! He laughed a clear, light laugh with a rising inflection, seeming to launch himself upon an adventurous quest for sympathy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Fenton s Quest Vol 3 of 3 written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fenton's Quest, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel When he had lighted the pipe, and smoked about half-a-dozen whiffs with a great assumption of coolness, he addressed himself to his daughter in an altered and conciliating tone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Better Sort Classic Reprint written by Henry James and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Better Sort Should he, in fact, have to pair with Mrs. Harvey for dinner it would be a shame to him not to have addressed her sooner; and should she, on the contrary, be put with someone else the loss of so much of the time would have but the greater ugliness. Didn't he meanwhile make out that there were ladies in the lower garden, from which the sound of voices, faint, but, as always in the upper air of Mundham, exceedingly sweet, was just now borne to him? She might be among them, and if he Should find her he would let her know he had sought her. He would treat it frankly as an occasion for declaring that what had happened between them - or rather what had not happened - was too absurd. What at present occurred, however, was that in his quest of her he suddenly, at the turn of an alley, perceived her, not far 03, seated in a sort of bower with the Ambassador. With this he pulled up, going another way and pretending not to see them. Three times already that afternoon he had observed her in different situations with the Ambassador. He was the more struck accordingly when, upward of an hour later, again alone and with his state unremedied, he saw her placed for dinner next his Excellency. It was not at all what would have been at Mundham her right seat, so that it could only be explained by his Excellency's direct request. She was a success! This time Straith was well in her view and could see that in the candle light of the wonderful room, where the lustres were, like the table, all crystal and silver, She was as handsome as anyone, taking the women of her age, and also as smart as the evening before, and as true as any of the others to the law of a marked difference in her smartness. If the beautiful way she held herself - for decidedly it was beautiful - came in a great measure from the good thing she professionally made of it all, our observer could reflect that the poor thing ize professionally made of it probably affected his attitude in just the opposite way but they communi cated neither in the glare nor in the grin that he had dreaded. Still, their eyes did now meet, and then it seemed to him that her own were strange. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Quest of Alistair Classic Reprint written by Robert Allison Hood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Quest of Alistair Ringing the bell, the young man was ushered upstairs by a trim maid in white cap and apron, where an elderly gentle man sat before a table that was literally covered with papers apparently in the wildest confusion. He rose with an um mistakable air of pleasure to welcome his visitor and shook him warmly by the hand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
