The bearing of the two seasons on the education of Henry Adams was no fancy; it was the most decisive force he ever knew; it ran through life, and made the division between its perplexing, warring, irreconcilable problems, irreducible opposites, with... The Education of Henry Adams - Page 18by Henry Adams - 2008 - 456 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Henry Adams - 1918 - 538 pages
...was the most decisive force he ever l it ran though life, and made the division between its perplexi warring, irreconcilable problems, irreducible opposites,...with growing emphasis to the last year of study. From earliesTchildhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer,... | |
| Henry Adams - 1927 - 534 pages
...education of Henry Adams was no fancy; it was the most decisive force he ever knew; it ran through life, and made the division between its perplexing,...country, law and liberty, were hostile, and the man whe pretended they were not, was in his eyes a schoolmaster — that is, a man employed to tell lies... | |
| T. J. Jackson Lears - 1994 - 397 pages
...bred two separate natures. Winter was always the effort to live; summer was tropical license. . . . Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty,...that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys." Adams associated winter with the false education of mechanical recitation, summer with the spontaneous... | |
| T. J. Jackson Lears - 1994 - 397 pages
...bred two separate natures. Winter was always the effort to live; summer was tropical license. . . . Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty,...man who pretended they were not, was in his eyes a schoolmaster—that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys." Adams associated winter with the... | |
| Lee Quinby - 1994 - 238 pages
...ever knew; it ran through life, and made the division between its perplexing, warring, irreconciliable problems, irreducible opposites, with growing emphasis to the last year of study" (9). The view expressed in the initial chapter that "Life was a double thing" runs throughout the text... | |
| Leo Marx - 2000 - 428 pages
...education of Henry Adams was no fancy; it was the most decisive force he ever knew; it ran through life, and made the division between its perplexing,...that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys. The apocalyptic image of the Dynamo and the Virgin is the ultimate expression of the tragic doubleness... | |
| Martin Bickman - 2003 - 193 pages
...education of Henry Adams was no fancy; it was the most decisive force he ever knew; it ran through life, and made the division between its perplexing,...warring, irreconcilable problems, irreducible opposites. . . . From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double . . . and... | |
| Jeremy D. Popkin - 2005 - 350 pages
...and the more forward-looking and commercial nineteenth-century spirit of his mother's Boston family. "From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double," Adams writes: as a result of his continuing loyalty to the Enlightenment moralism of the family tradition,... | |
| Roger Lundin - 2007 - 282 pages
...Like all the great modern antinomies — fact and value, illusion and reality, religion and science— "winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty,...that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys" (Adams, 728-29). So though the child may need to make sense of the "blooming confusion," he is far... | |
| Adolph L. Reed Jr. - 1997 - 302 pages
...Henry Adams was no fancy; it was the most decisive force he ever knew; it ran through life, and made division between its perplexing, warring, irreconcilable...accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. . . . The boy inherited his double nature.96 Lears, in fact, argues that while more than most "Adams... | |
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