On the Front Line of Life: Stephen Leacock : Memories and Reflections, 1935-1944In the last decade of his life, Leacock turned to writing informal essays that blended humour with a conversational style and ripened wisdom to address the issues he cared about most - education, literature, economics, Canada and its place in the world - and to confront the joys and sorrows of his own life. With an introduction that sets them in the context of his life, thoughts and times, these essays reveal a passionate, intellegent, personal Leacock, against a backdrop of Depression and war, finding hope and conveying the timeless message that only the human spirit can bring social justice, peace, and progress. |
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... side . But it is not only society that imprisons us . Our lives themselves , and all our works , are " but as nothing , all that we do has in it a touch of the pathetic , and even our sins and wickedness and crime are par- doned in the ...
... side . But it is not only society that imprisons us . Our lives themselves , and all our works , are " but as nothing , all that we do has in it a touch of the pathetic , and even our sins and wickedness and crime are par- doned in the ...
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... side in the magnificent visions of " railways in the wilderness , of a grain flotilla on the Hudson's Bay , and of the valley of the Peace broken under the ploughshare . The attraction of the great unknown hinterland that called to it ...
... side in the magnificent visions of " railways in the wilderness , of a grain flotilla on the Hudson's Bay , and of the valley of the Peace broken under the ploughshare . The attraction of the great unknown hinterland that called to it ...
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... side of Lake Simcoe , the township of Georgina , to which at that time there was no railway connection . From Newmarket my father and his hired man were to drive us the remaining thirty miles to reach the old farm . They had for it two ...
... side of Lake Simcoe , the township of Georgina , to which at that time there was no railway connection . From Newmarket my father and his hired man were to drive us the remaining thirty miles to reach the old farm . They had for it two ...
Page 53
... side door . A cookhouse and a woodshed were stuck on behind . Across a grass yard were the stable , cedar logs plastered up , and the barns , cedar logs loose and open , and a cart shed and a henhouse , and pigsties and all that goes ...
... side door . A cookhouse and a woodshed were stuck on behind . Across a grass yard were the stable , cedar logs plastered up , and the barns , cedar logs loose and open , and a cart shed and a henhouse , and pigsties and all that goes ...
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... side , which give the impression that all farmers are scientists - only they aren't ; it's just more mortgages . Such has been the background of Ontario farming for one hundred years . Our routine on the farm , as children , was to stay ...
... side , which give the impression that all farmers are scientists - only they aren't ; it's just more mortgages . Such has been the background of Ontario farming for one hundred years . Our routine on the farm , as children , was to stay ...
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