Round My House: Notes of Rural Life in France in Peace and War. E-book. Formato PDF Philip Gilbert Hamerton   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

For ever, and cannot be recovered. It is perhaps for this reason that almost all the books which are written.

The Intellectual Life. E-book. Formato PDF Philip Gilbert Hamerton   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

I have written for all classes, in the convic tion that the intellectual life is really within the reach of every one who earnestly desires it. The highest culture can never be within the reach of those who cannot give the years of labor which it costs; and if we cultivate ourselves to shine in the eyes of others, to be come famous in literature or science, then of course we must give many more hours of 1a bor than can be spared from a life of practical industry. But I am fully convinced of this, convinced by the observation of living in stances in all classes, that any man or woman of large natural capacity may reach the tone of thinking which may justly be called intel lectual, even though that thinking may not be expressed in the most perfect language.

French and English: A Comparison. E-book. Formato PDF Philip Gilbert Hamerton   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

I should like to write with complete impartiality, if it were possible. I have at least written with the most sincere desire to be impartial, and that perhaps at the cost of some popularity in England, for certain English critics have told me that impartiality is not patriotic, and others have informed me of what I did not know before, namely, that I prefer the French to my own countrymen.