item: #1 of 8 id: 130 author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) title: Orthodoxy date: None words: 64304 flesch: 73 summary: It is much more likely that modern men will eat human flesh out of affectation than that primitive man ever ate it out of ignorance. How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as they are in their sunny selfishness and their virile indifference! keywords: answer; argument; believe; book; case; christianity; church; course; doctrine; earth; fact; fairy; faith; god; good; human; idea; instance; life; love; man; matter; men; mind; miracles; nature; people; philosophy; point; question; real; reason; religion; right; saying; sense; things; thought; time; truth; universe; want; way; world; wrong cache: 130.txt plain text: 130.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 18707 author: Ward, Maisie title: Gilbert Keith Chesterton date: None words: 240556 flesch: 74 summary: I began to go through the manuscript unifying--and then I noticed that in a single paragraph of his _Bernard Shaw_ Gilbert uses GBS, Shaw, Bernard Shaw, and Mr. Shaw. Beyond one or two touches of this sort the idea had been a suggestion for a character, not a portrait, and in the _Autobiography_ and in the _Dickens_ Gilbert has a good deal to say of interest to the novelist about how such suggestions come and are used. keywords: age; american; answer; article; autobiography; beaconsfield; beginning; believe; belloc; book; brother; business; case; catholic; cecil; cecil chesterton; chapter; chesterton; children; christian; church; club; company; country; course; daily; day; days; deal; dear; death; dickens; doubt; england; english; fact; faith; family; father; find; frances; friends; g.k; general; george; gilbert; gilbert chesterton; god; good; government; great; half; hand; head; heart; high; history; home; hope; house; human; idea; isaacs; kind; lady; left; letter; liberal; life; literary; london; look; lord; love; making; man; marconi; matter; means; meeting; men; mind; moment; money; mother; mrs; nature; new; news; order; paper; party; people; philosophy; place; play; point; poor; present; property; public; question; read; reading; real; religion; rest; right; room; rufus; saw; saying; school; second; sense; set; shares; shaw; social; society; sort; state; story; street; talk; things; thought; time; today; truth; view; vision; want; war; way; week; weekly; wells; wife; witness; words; work; world; writing; wrong; years; young cache: 18707.txt plain text: 18707.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 27080 author: West, Julius title: G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study date: None words: 41537 flesch: 79 summary: By John Palmer._ PUPIL, THE. _ G. K. CHESTERTON _UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME:_ W. B. YEATS BY FORREST REID J. M. SYNGE BY P. P. HOWE HENRY JAMES BY FORD MADOX HUEFFER HENRIK IBSEN BY R. ELLIS ROBERTS THOMAS HARDY keywords: 8vo; art; author; book; case; chesterton; christianity; conjuror; crown; crown 8vo; daily; day; demy; doctor; duke; end; england; fact; father; g.k.c; god; good; house; human; humour; john; letters; life; magic; man; men; morris; net; new; order; patricia; people; point; religion; shaw; smith; sort; story; study; things; time; way; women; work; world; years; young cache: 27080.txt plain text: 27080.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 27250 author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) title: What I Saw in America date: None words: 91577 flesch: 66 summary: I should say that the overwhelming majority of American girls laugh at their female politicians at least as much as the majority of American men despise their male politicians. It is not by English dukes importing the daughters of American millionaires that England can get any glimpse of the democratic dignity of American men. keywords: american; business; case; century; city; country; course; day; democracy; democratic; difference; doubt; england; english; englishman; fact; fancy; fashion; french; gentleman; good; history; home; hotel; house; ideal; ireland; irish; jews; life; lincoln; love; man; matter; means; men; middle; mind; modern; national; new; people; place; point; politics; power; problem; prohibition; public; reason; red; right; saying; sense; sort; spirit; state; street; talk; things; time; truth; war; way; white; world; york cache: 27250.txt plain text: 27250.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 27569 author: Braybrooke, Patrick title: Gilbert Keith Chesterton date: None words: 41077 flesch: 71 summary: That period which lay between them may roughly be called the Middle Ages, which part of history Chesterton thinks has been badly treated. While realizing the difficulties involved, he feels that the opportunities he has enjoyed give him at least some qualifications for the task, for not only is he a kinsman of Mr. Chesterton, but also has spent much time in his company. keywords: book; browning; chapter; chesterton; church; critic; day; dickens; divorce; england; english; fact; good; history; home; king; life; man; marriage; matter; men; people; place; poem; poet; public; reason; sense; shaw; thackeray; thing; time; way; work; world; writer cache: 27569.txt plain text: 27569.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 45811 author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) title: A Chesterton Calendar Compiled from the writings of 'G.K.C.' both in verse and in prose. With a section apart for the moveable feasts. date: None words: 40899 flesch: 80 summary: Men are men, but Man is a woman. _' Great men like Ariosto, Rabelais, and Shakespeare fall in foul places, flounder in violent but venial sin, sprawl for pages, exposing their gigantic weakness, are dirty, are indefensible; and then they struggle up again and can still speak with a convincing kindness and an unbroken honour of the best things in the world: keywords: april; august; charles; christian; church; day; december; dickens; earth; england; fact; february; george; god; good; heretics; idea; january; july; june; life; love; man; march; mean; men; news; november; october; orthodoxy; people; place; real; reason; september; sun; talk; things; thought; time; trifles; truth; way; world; wrong cache: 45811.txt plain text: 45811.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 46809 author: Slosson, Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) title: Six Major Prophets date: None words: 71881 flesch: 62 summary: Great men are apt to shrink when you get too close to them. Zwilt's Humane Vivarium --The little men who paint on gum --The exquisite Gorilla Girl.... keywords: american; author; bernard; book; british; case; chesterton; children; course; day; days; democracy; dewey; end; england; english; eucken; fact; force; form; future; german; god; good; history; human; interest; journal; life; logic; london; man; means; men; mind; modern; nature; new; opinion; order; oxford; people; philosophy; point; pragmatism; present; professor; public; question; race; read; religion; right; schiller; school; science; set; shaw; social; socialism; society; state; theory; things; thought; time; truth; university; use; view; volume; war; way; wells; work; world; years cache: 46809.txt plain text: 46809.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 470 author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) title: Heretics date: None words: 65290 flesch: 70 summary: And hence the worship of great men always appears in times of weakness and cowardice; we never hear of great men until the time when all other men are small. But the thing signal-box is not unpoetical; it is a place where men, in an agony of vigilance, light blood-red and sea-green fires to keep other men from death. keywords: art; christian; christianity; civilization; course; england; english; fact; god; good; great; human; humility; ideal; kind; life; literature; love; man; matter; mccabe; means; men; mind; modern; moment; nature; new; people; philosophy; place; point; progress; question; reason; religion; right; science; sense; shaw; simple; thing; time; truth; view; way; wells; world cache: 470.txt plain text: 470.txt