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Author : Robert Lynd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.P/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of Ignorance written by Robert Lynd and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Lynd
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of Ignorance written by Robert Lynd and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is impossible to take a walk in the country with an average townsman-especially, perhaps, in April or May-without being amazed at the vast continent of his ignorance. It is impossible to take a walk in the country oneself without being amazed at the vast continent of one's own ignorance. Thousands of men and women live and die without knowing the difference between a beech and an elm, between the song of a thrush and the song of a blackbird. Probably in a modern city the man who can distinguish between a thrush's and a blackbird's song is the exception. It is not that we have not seen the birds. It is simply that we have not noticed them. We have been surrounded by birds all our lives, yet so feeble is our observation that many of us could not tell whether or not the chaffinch sings, or the colour of the cuckoo. We argue like small boys as to whether the cuckoo always sings as he flies or sometimes in the branches of a tree-whether Chapman drew on his fancy or his knowledge of nature in the lines
Author : Robert Lynd
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (844 download)
Download or read book The pleasures of ignorance, by R.Lynd (Y.Y.). written by Robert Lynd and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Lynd
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 : 9781414249308
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (493 download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of Ignorance written by Robert Lynd and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1921 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Lynd
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781548374327
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (743 download)
Download or read book The Pleasure of Ignorance written by Robert Lynd and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ignorance, however, is not altogether miserable. Out of it we get the constant pleasure of discovery. Every fact of nature comes to us each spring, if only we are sufficiently ignorant, with the dew still on it. If we have lived half a lifetime without having ever even seen a cuckoo, and know it only as a wandering voice, we are all the more delighted at the spectacle of its runaway flight as it hurries from wood to wood conscious of its crimes, and at the way in which it halts hawk-like in the wind, its long tail quivering, before it dares descend on a hill-side of fir-trees where avenging presences may lurk. It would be absurd to pretend that the naturalist does not also find pleasure in observing the life of the birds, but his is a steady pleasure, almost a sober and plodding occupation, compared to the morning enthusiasm of the man who sees a cuckoo for the first time, and, behold, the world is made new. And, as to that, the happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes. He wishes with his own eyes to see the female cuckoo-rare spectacle!-as she lays her egg on the ground and takes it in her bill to the nest in which it is destined to breed infanticide. He would sit day after day with a field-glass against his eyes in order personally to endorse or refute the evidence suggesting that the cuckoo does lay on the ground and not in a nest. And, if he is so far fortunate as to discover this most secretive of birds in the very act of laying, there still remain for him other fields to conquer in a multitude of such disputed questions as whether the cuckoo's egg is always of the same colour as the other eggs in the nest in which she abandons it. Assuredly the men of science have no reason as yet to weep over their lost ignorance. If they seem to know everything, it is only because you and I know almost nothing. There will always be a fortune of ignorance waiting for them under every fact they turn up. They will never know what song the Sirens sang to Ulysses any more than Sir Thomas Browne did.
Author : Robert Lynd
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (561 download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of Ignorance. (Second Edition.). written by Robert Lynd and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Warren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107025443
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists written by James Warren and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did ancient philosophers understand the relationship between human capacities for thinking and our experiences of pleasure and pain?
Author : Stuart Firestein
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199828075
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Ignorance written by Stuart Firestein and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, Stuart Firestein takes the novel perspective that ignorance is the main product and driving force of science, and that this is the best way to understand the process of scientific discovery.
Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458772497
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book The Way of Ignorance written by Wendell Berry and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continuing war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the political sniping engendered by the Supreme Court nominations, Terry Schiavo - contemporary American society is characterized by divisive anger, profound loss, and danger. Wendell Berry, one of the country's foremost cultural critics, addresses the menace, responding with hope and intelligence in a series of essays that tackle the major questions of the day. Whose freedom are we considering when we speak of the ''free market'' or ''free enterprise?'' What is really involved in our National Security? What is the price of ownership without affection? Berry answers in prose that shuns abstraction for clarity, coherence, and passion, giving us essays that may be the finest of his long career.
Author : Robert Lynd
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of Ignorance written by Robert Lynd and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard P. Feynman
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465013120
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Pleasure of Finding Things Out written by Richard P. Feynman and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2005-04-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection from scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner highlights the achievements of a man whose career reshaped the world's understanding of quantum electrodynamics. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman-from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science-a life like no other. From his ruminations on science in our culture to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, this book will fascinate anyone interested in the world of ideas.
Author : George Lamming
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472064663
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (646 download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of Exile written by George Lamming and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the effects of colonialism on those who are held in check
Author : Mark Akenside
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of the Imagination written by Mark Akenside and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Lynd
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Book of this and that written by Robert Lynd and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Lynd
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016445931
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (459 download)
Download or read book The Pleasure Of Ignorance written by Robert Lynd and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : William Hazlitt
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101651172
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book On the Pleasure of Hating written by William Hazlitt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-09-06 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Hazlitt's tough, combative writings on subjects ranging from slavery to the imagination, boxing matches to the monarchy, established him as one of the greatest radicals of his age and have inspired journalists and political satirists ever since.
Author : Rose Macaulay
Publisher : Handheld Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781912766505
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (665 download)
Download or read book Personal Pleasures written by Rose Macaulay and published by Handheld Classics. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal Pleasures is an anthology of 80 short essays (some of them very short) about the things she enjoyed most in life. Her subjects include: - Bed (Getting Into It) - Booksellers Catalogues - Christmas Morning - Driving a Car - Flattery - Heresies - Not Going to Parties - Shopping Abroad - Writing While each essay can be read on its own as a short dose of delicious writing, the collection is also an autobiographical selection, revealing glimpses of Rose's own life, and making us laugh helplessly with her inimitable humour.
