A Somerset Childhood
Few things are more likely than that a man of promise will fail to live up to it, and few things more saddening than reading the memoirs of a failure. The world is full of people who have a superfluity of knowledge, culture and taste—in short all the tools of achievement—but are deficient in the lat...
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Published in | The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot p. 1 |
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Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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United States
Yale University Press
24.09.2013
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Summary: | Few things are more likely than that a man of promise will fail to live up to it, and few things more saddening than reading the memoirs of a failure. The world is full of people who have a superfluity of knowledge, culture and taste—in short all the tools of achievement—but are deficient in the latent impulse and energy which alone can turn such instruments to account. The touching remains of the young in our graveyards gives us no clue to the future fate of those persons had they survived. We can only tell a man of genius |
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ISBN: | 9780300195545 0300195540 |