On Being Human, Paperback by Wilson, Woodrow, Like New Used, Free shipping in...
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On Being Human, Paperback by Wilson, Woodrow, Like New Used, Free shipping in.... On Being Human, Paperback by Wilson, Woodrow, ISBN 1519185979, ISBN-13 9781519185976, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "The rarest sort of a book," says Mr. Bagehot, slyly, is "a book to read"; and "the knack in style is to write like a human being." It is painfully evident, upon experiment, that not many of ths which come teeming from our presses every year are meant to be read. They are meant, it may be, to be pondered; it is hoped, no doubt, they may instruct, or inform, or startle, or arouse, or reform, or provoke, or amuse us; but we read, if we have the true reader's zest and plate, not to grow more knowing, but to be less pent up and bound within a little circle,--as those who take their pleasure, and not as those who laboriously seek instruction. On Being Human, Paperback by Wilson, Woodrow, ISBN 1519185979, ISBN-13 9781519185976, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "The rarest sort of a book," says Mr. Bagehot, slyly, is "a book to read"; and "the knack in style is to write like a human being." It is painfully evident, upon experiment, that not many of ths which come teeming from our presses every year are meant to be read. They are meant, it may be, to be pondered; it is hoped, no doubt, they may instruct, or inform, or startle, or arouse, or reform, or provoke, or amuse us; but we read, if we have the true reader's zest and plate, not to grow more knowing, but to be less pent up and bound within a little circle,--as those who take their pleasure, and not as those who laboriously seek instruction.
