 Her notion of the aristocratic life was simply the union of great knowledge with great liberty, the knowledge would give one a sense of duty and the liberty a sense of enjoyment.  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 2291881Full view - About this book
 | 1881 - 514 pages
...such different associations and desires, to the same formulas. Her notion of the aristocratic life was simply the union of great culture with great liberty;...do what she chose with it. He had an immense esteem fc1r tradition ; he had told her once that the best thing in the world was to have it, but that if... | |
 | Henry James - Americans - 1909 - 452 pages
...the aristocratic life . .-was simply the union of great knowledge with great liberty; the knowledge would give one a sense of duty and the liberty a sense...attitude. He was fond of the old, the consecrated, the transmitted; so was she, but she pretended to do what she chose with it. He had an immense esteem... | |
 | Henry James - 1909 - 456 pages
...of the aristocratic life was simply the union of great knowledge with great liberty; the knowledge would give one a sense of duty and the liberty a sense of enjoyment. But for Osmond it jyas altogether a thing of forms. a_cpnscious. calculated attitude. He was fond of thej)I37tEe consecrated,... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - Fiction - 1917 - 652 pages
...knowledge with great liberty ; the knowledge Would give one a. sense of duty, and the liberty a sehse of enjoyment. But for Osmond it was altogether a thing...she pretended to do what she chose with it. He had ah immense esteem for tradition^ he had told her orice that the best thing in the world was to hare... | |
 | Graham Clarke - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 452 pages
...of the aristocratic life was simply the union of great knowledge with great liberty; the knowledge would give one a sense of duty and the liberty a sense...a thing of forms, a conscious, calculated attitude . . . But there were certain things she could never take in. To begin with, they were hideously unclean.... | |
 | Henry James - Fiction - 1996 - 532 pages
...of the aristocratic life was simply the union of great knowledge with great liberty, the knowledge would give one a sense of duty and the liberty a sense...attitude. He was fond of the old, the consecrated, the transmitted; so was she, but she pretended to do what she chose with it. He had an immense esteem... | |
 | Sami Ludwig, S鑑mi·Ludwig - American fiction - 2002 - 324 pages
...notion of aristocratic life was simply the union of great knowledge with great liberty; the knowledge would give one a sense of duty and the liberty a sense...thing of forms, a conscious, calculated attitude" (462). Osmond stands for a culture of mere form that destroys life and thus any meaning in the sense... | |
 | William Wasserstrom - Literary Criticism - 1959 - 174 pages
...of the aristocratic life was simply the union "of great knowledge with great liberty; the knowledge would give one a sense of duty, and the liberty a sense of enjoyment." But Isabel turns her back on the best Europe can provide quite as she refuses the best that America alone... | |
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