 | Frederic William Henry Myers - 1893 - 264 lapas
...atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. . . . The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and...may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more prob- \ ably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emo- ' tional part of our nature. Here, surely,... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1894 - 144 lapas
...at least once every week ; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." As Montaigne says, " We are ever ready to ask ' Hath he any skill in the Greek and Latin tongue ? Can... | |
 | 1909 - 494 lapas
...I would have made it a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and...character by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." John Stuart Mill, again, whose childhood and youth were subjected to a severe intellectual training... | |
 | 1897 - 880 lapas
...music at least once a week ; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a...character by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." The programme-maker who does not provide adequate time and facilities for the continuous study of the... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - 1896 - 388 lapas
...music at least once a week ; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." 1 INTRODUCTION. So innumerable have modern discoveries been, that it is almost impossible for any human... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 580 lapas
...at least once every week ; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through... | |
 | Nathaniel Hillyer Egleston - 1896 - 90 lapas
...that part of the brain on which the higher tastes depend. " The loss of these tastes," mark his words, "is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious...'character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." Let us take the lesson to heart. It needs to be heeded, for, in the strenuous efforts that are now... | |
 | 1896 - 360 lapas
...that part of the brain on which the higher tastes depend. "The loss of these tastes," mark his words, "is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious...moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of oar nature." Let us take the lesson to heart. It needs to be heeded, for, in the strenuous ell'orts... | |
 | 1898 - 558 lapas
...at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.' (I, 81, 82.) " Mr. Darwin uses the right word; part of his brain had become 'atrophied;' but he is... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1897 - 396 lapas
...music at least once a week, for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a...character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." * To similar effect Gladstone has recently remarked that in hia experience " persons who are engaged... | |
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I suppose, have thus suffered; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through... 
