I Have Been Driven To These Reflections By Reading Mr.
Amery's Days of Fresh Air. The tonic quality of this book has filled me with envy and regret. Mr. Amery seems to have climbed everything, even the mountain of which he is the......
People And Things
By HAROLD NICOLSON T HROUGHOUT my life I have suffered from being " bad at games." By this I do not mean merely that I am less proficient than are other- men at catching or......
It Was A Frenchman Who First Released My Soul From
this feeling of perpetual inferiority. Of the many debts which I owe to France it is this debt which warms me with the deepest gratitude. He was a professor at a small......
My Professor, Observing That I Would Return Wet And...
from these long and gloomy expeditions, suggested that this passion for taking exercise was " an English fallacy." " It is," he explained, " a fallacy which is highly dangerous.......
The Greeks, I Suspect, Would Not Wholly Have Approved Of
my five French professors. Socrates, who in many ways was a tolerant man, took young Epigenes fiercely to task for his neglect of physical exercise, and Plato was most emphatic......
I Have No Conception Why So Vast A Disability Should
have fallen to my lot. Astigmatism is not a sufficient explanation, nor can I in any sense plead lack of vitality or ill-health. I have my hearty sides ; I like cold baths in......
Or Was I? Am 1? When I Look Back Upon
the last thirty years, I observe with surprise that the high points of enjoy- ment which rise above the level plain of memory are in most cases associated with a mood of......
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