reminiscences


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I have hundreds of such reminiscences; but at times some one stands out from the hundred and oppresses me.
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Ford is, Captain Jim?" asked Anne, seeing that Captain Jim's fountain of reminiscence had run out for the present.
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In ordinary cases, this indescribable impression is caused by the comparison and contrast between our imperfect reminiscences and the reality.
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This Dialogue contains the first intimation of the doctrine of reminiscence and of the immortality of the soul.
The doctrine of reminiscence too is explained more in accordance with fact and experience as arising out of the affinities of nature (ate tes thuseos oles suggenous ouses).
The main character of the Dialogue is Socrates; but to the 'general definitions' of Socrates is added the Platonic doctrine of reminiscence. The problems of virtue and knowledge have been discussed in the Lysis, Laches, Charmides, and Protagoras; the puzzle about knowing and learning has already appeared in the Euthydemus.
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Hock is full of fancy, and all wines are by their very nature full of reminiscence, the golden tears and red blood of summers that are gone.
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He talked to me of London in a tone of half-painful reminiscence, asking all kinds of questions about changes that had taken place.
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The notion had no ground in sense; it was probably no more than a reminiscence of similar calamities in childhood, for his father's room had always been the chamber of inquisition and the scene of punishment; but it stuck so rigorously in his mind that he must instantly approach the door and prove its untruth.
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Current interest in the theory of autobiography has recently been accompanied by an emphasis on personal writing in a wider sense: diaries, letters, reminiscences, whether literary or otherwise.
French Autobiographical Writing, 1900-1950: An Annotated Bibliography
This slender volume reflects an effort on the part of some Lincoln scholars to reexamine reminiscences gathered by early Lincoln biographers.
An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay's Interviews Jet and Essays
Each chapter fleshes out his ordeal with anecdotes, autobiographical reminiscences and broad cultural reflections.
Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa
Captions feature reminiscences of admirers, friends former ring foes and Ali himself, tied together by an unassuming narrative.
Great reads: Black books and authors continue to break new ground
This effort resulted in three books that have become classics: Semeynaya khronika(1856; The Family Chronicle ), Vospominaniya (1856; "Reminiscences"; A Russian Schoolboy), and Detskie gody Bagrova-vnuka (1858; Childhood Years of Grandson Bagrov).
Aksakov, Sergey Timofeyevich
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