| Literature - 1909 - 850 pages
...advantageous position when the Panama Canal is finished and their fleet stronger than Japan's. BORES. "The attempt to classify one's acquaintance is the common sport of the thinker," we read in an amusing little American book about bores— and people who are not bores, for whom no... | |
| George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken - Literature, Modern - 1906 - 570 pages
...the nature of axioms We have all tried our hands at categories. Philosophy is, itself, but a series of definitions. What, then, made the Chatelaine's...itself with distinctions? The attempt to classify one 's acquaintance is the common sport of the thinker, from the fastidious who say: "There are two... | |
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