could anyone explain me the following quotation:
She loved money, but could occasionally part with it, especially to men of learning, whose patronage she affected. She often conversed with them, and bewildered herself in their metaphysical disputes, which neither she nor they themselves understood.
2006-06-20 02:22:25 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
the second quotation is :
The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.
3. The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issues not from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.
4. A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amount of hard work is too severe for it.
5. Tried by a New England eye, or the more practical wisdom of modern times, they are the oracles of a race already in its dotage; but held up to the sky, which is the only impartial and incorruptible ordeal, they are of a piece with its depth and serenity, and I am assured that they will have a place.
2006-06-20 02:45:09 · update #1
i can't seem to put my finger on it, teehee
2006-07-01 11:23:03 · answer #1 · answered by Vprincess 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
there was a woman who loved money, but not enough to part with it occcasionally, especiallywith men of learning (teachers, students, etc.) whose patronage (support or encouragement) she affected. She spoke with them often, and she surprised herself in the abstract and theoretical arguments that she had with these men, which neither she nor they themselves understood.
2006-06-20 09:31:58 · answer #2 · answered by somepaliguy27 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A woman who attends college is persuit of knowledge and career enjoys conversations and debates with her male professors about things that are unanswerable. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
2006-06-20 09:30:49 · answer #3 · answered by El 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The woman charges most men for her favors, but certain men she sees for no financial compensation, just because she enjoys talking to them and perhaps escaping mentally to another world, much different than her own.
2006-06-20 09:29:30 · answer #4 · answered by nalashelby 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It appears that she was a hooker who was not above paying money for a good shagging but she didn't care to stick around for the conversation and snuggling after.
2006-06-29 17:26:12 · answer #5 · answered by willberb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Old Testament wise woman praised by her husband for her Godly ways. She is acclaimed by her husband and friends, in the old testament. Forget her name but she's there.
2006-07-02 04:01:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
she had a joy for money, but men that she could talk to and learn with she affected for more. but she, nor anyone else understood why.
2006-06-20 09:45:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no man is in true health who cat not stand in the free air of heaven with his feet on god's free turf, and thank his creator for the simple luxury of physical existence
2006-07-01 03:29:11 · answer #8 · answered by pitbull_saki 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now I realized why you offered 15 points!
2006-07-01 07:22:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
she held tightly to the material world but occasionally would venture into spiritual curiosities because the material world did not meet all of her needs.
2006-06-28 23:11:50 · answer #10 · answered by mochi.girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
she pays the shrink who tries to diagnose whetever is wrong with her and gets confused with their explanation which they cannot really understand
2006-06-20 09:42:40 · answer #11 · answered by Total 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋