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The Quest Of The Simple Life
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Author : W. J. Dawson
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-15
The Quest Of The Simple Life written by W. J. Dawson and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-15 with Fiction categories.
'The Quest of the Simple Life' is a book written by William James Dawson. It basically revolves around his criticisms of city life, specifically that in London. His reflections are remarkably prescient to today's sentiment as shown from the following passage, "After ten years of arduous toil I found myself at thirty-five lonely, friendless, and imprisoned in a groove of iron, whose long curves swept on inevitably to that grim terminus where all men arrive at last. Sometimes I chide myself for my discontent; and certainly there were many who might have envied me. I occupied a fairly comfortable house in a decayed terrace where each house was exactly like its neighbor, and had I told anyone that the mere aspect of this gray terrace oppressed me by its featureless monotony, I should have been laughed at for my pains. In course of time my income would have increased, though never to that degree which means competence or freedom. To this common object of ambition I had indeed long ago become indifferent. What can a few extra pounds a year bring to a man who finds himself bound to the same tasks, and those tasks distasteful? I was married and had two children; and the most distressing thought of all was that I saw my children predestined to the same fate. I saw them growing up in complete destitution of those country sights and sounds which had made my own youth delightful; acquiring the superficial sharpness of the city child and his slang; suffering at times by the anemia and listlessness bred of vitiated air; high-strung and sensitive as those must needs be whose nerves are in perpetual agitation; and when, in chance excursions to the country, I compared my children with the children of cottagers and plowmen, I felt that I had wronged them, I saw my children foredoomed, by an inexorable destiny, to a life at all points similar with my own. In course of time they also would become recruits in the narrow-chested, black-coated army of those who sit at desks. They would become slaves without having known the value of freedom; slaves not by capture but by heritage."
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Author : W. J. Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Release Date : 2021-01-01
The Quest Of The Simple Life written by W. J. Dawson and has been published by Prabhat Prakashan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-01 with Self-Help categories.
For a considerable number of years I had been a resident in London, which city I regarded alternately as my Paradise and my House of Bondage. I am by no means one of those who are always ready to fling opprobrious epithets at London, such as 'a pestilent wen,' a cluster of 'squalid villages,' and the like; on the contrary, I regard London as the most fascinating of all cities, with the one exception of that city of Eternal Memories beside the Tiber. But even Horace loved the olive-groves of Tivoli more than the far-ranged splendours of the Palatine; and I may be pardoned if an occasional vision of green fields often left my eye insensitive to metropolitan attractions.
The Quest Of The Simple Life
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Author : William James Dawson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1906
The Quest Of The Simple Life written by William James Dawson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1906 with Country life categories.
The Quest Of The Simple Life Retiring To The Country And Living Simpler Healthier And Happier A Classic Guide Dating To The 1900s
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Author : William J. Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2018-08-09
The Quest Of The Simple Life Retiring To The Country And Living Simpler Healthier And Happier A Classic Guide Dating To The 1900s written by William J. Dawson and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-09 with Self-Help categories.
William J. Dawson explains his escape from a mundane job and existence, into the countryside where he aims to live a life that is simpler and freer of hassles. Writing in the early 20th century, the author recounts his experience working as an office clerk in the city of London. Bored and unfulfilled by his daily life, he desires to move to the countryside and begin again in a rural setting. Dawson recounts his day to day life, his accounting job which is repetitive and allows for little creative thinking, and finally his loss of the job, which he is determined to make a blessing in disguise. Although the author's quandaries are familiar to the modern reader familiar with the maddening hysteria of working life, William Dawson's frank explanations of the practicalities behind this vision breath life into his story. The process of finding and restoring a home in the country, of resettling his family, and of becoming used to the customs and culture of the pastoral landscape is recounted.
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Author : William J. Dawson
language : en
Publisher: HOLISTENCE PUBLICATIONS
Release Date : 2024-03-19
The Quest Of The Simple Life written by William J. Dawson and has been published by HOLISTENCE PUBLICATIONS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-19 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
The Quest Of The Simple Life
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Author : William James Dawson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
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Author : John William Dawson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-05-01
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The Quest Of The Simple Life Retiring To The Country And Living Simpler Healthier And Happier A Classic Guide Dating To The 1900s Hardcover
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Author : William J. Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2018-08-09
The Quest Of The Simple Life Retiring To The Country And Living Simpler Healthier And Happier A Classic Guide Dating To The 1900s Hardcover written by William J. Dawson and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-09 with Self-Help categories.
William J. Dawson explains his escape from a mundane job and existence, into the countryside where he aims to live a life that is simpler and freer of hassles. Writing in the early 20th century, the author recounts his experience working as an office clerk in the city of London. Bored and unfulfilled by his daily life, he desires to move to the countryside and begin again in a rural setting. Dawson recounts his day to day life, his accounting job which is repetitive and allows for little creative thinking, and finally his loss of the job, which he is determined to make a blessing in disguise. Although the author's quandaries are familiar to the modern reader familiar with the maddening hysteria of working life, William Dawson's frank explanations of the practicalities behind this vision breath life into his story. The process of finding and restoring a home in the country, of resettling his family, and of becoming used to the customs and culture of the pastoral landscape is recounted.
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Author : William J. Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-06-19
The Quest Of The Simple Life written by William J. Dawson and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-19 with categories.
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Author : William J. Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Pinnacle Press
Release Date : 2017-05-25
The Quest Of The Simple Life written by William J. Dawson and has been published by Pinnacle Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-25 with Fiction categories.
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