The Ruling Passion Tales Of Nature And Human Nature

Author : Henry Van Dyke
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021969613
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Ruling Passion written by Henry Van Dyke and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories and essays, The Ruling Passion Tales of Nature and Human Nature explores the complexities of the human experience through the lens of the natural world. From the awe-inspiring beauty of the Grand Canyon to the treacherous waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Henry Van Dyke's vivid prose takes readers on a journey of discovery and self-reflection. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Henry Van Dyke
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ISBN 13 : 9781330866429
Total Pages : 332 pages
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Download or read book The Ruling Passion written by Henry Van Dyke and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature In every life worth writing about there is a ruling passion, - "the very pulse of the machine." Unless you touch that, you are groping around outside of reality. Sometimes it is romantic love: Nature's masterpiece of interested benevolence. In almost all lives this passion has its season of empire. Therefore, and rightly, it is the favourite theme of the storyteller. Romantic love interests almost everybody, because almost everybody knows something about it, or would like to know. But there are other passions, no less real, which also have their place and power in human life. Some of them come earlier, and sometimes they last longer, than romantic love. They play alongside of it and are mixed up with it, now checking it, now advancing its flow and tingering it with their own colour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Henry Van Dyke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 295 pages
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Author : Henry Van Dyke
Publisher : Copp, Clark Company
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Total Pages : 344 pages
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Download or read book The Ruling Passion written by Henry Van Dyke and published by Copp, Clark Company. This book was released on 1901 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Van Dyke
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Total Pages : 295 pages
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Author : Henry Van Dyke
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Total Pages : 110 pages
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Download or read book The Ruling Passion written by Henry Van Dyke and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He entered the backwoods village of Bytown literally on the wings of the wind. It whirled him along like a big snowflake, and dropped him at the door of Moody's "Sportsmen's Retreat," as if he were a New Year's gift from the North Pole. His coming seemed a mere chance; but perhaps there was something more in it, after all. At all events, you shall hear, if you will, the time and the manner of his arrival. It was the last night of December, some thirty-five years ago. All the city sportsmen who had hunted the deer under Bill Moody's direction had long since retreated to their homes, leaving the little settlement on the border of the Adirondack wilderness wholly under the social direction of the natives. The annual ball was in full swing in the dining-room of the hotel. At one side of the room the tables and chairs were piled up, with their legs projecting in the air like a thicket of very dead trees. The huge stove in the southeast corner was blushing a rosy red through its thin coat of whitewash, and exhaling a furious dry heat flavoured with the smell of baked iron. At the north end, however, winter reigned; and there were tiny ridges of fine snow on the floor, sifted in by the wind through the cracks in the window-frames. But the bouncing girls and the heavy-footed guides and lumbermen who filled the ballroom did not appear to mind the heat or the cold. They balanced and "sashayed" from the tropics to the arctic circle. They swung at corners and made "ladies' change" all through the temperate zone. They stamped their feet and did double-shuffles until the floor trembled beneath them. The tin lamp-reflectors on the walls rattled like castanets. There was only one drawback to the hilarity of the occasion. The band, which was usually imported from Sandy River Forks for such festivities, -a fiddle, a cornet, a flute, and an accordion, -had not arrived. There was a general idea that the mail-sleigh, in which the musicians were to travel, had been delayed by the storm, and might break its way through the snow-drifts and arrive at any moment. But Bill Moody, who was naturally of a pessimistic temperament, had offered a different explanatio

Author : Henry Van Dyke
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781502510679
Total Pages : 102 pages
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Download or read book The Ruling Passion written by Henry Van Dyke and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let me never tag a moral to a story, nor tell a story without a meaning. Make me respect my material so much that I dare not slight my work. Help me to deal very honestly with words and with people because they are both alive. Show me that as in a river, so in a writing, clearness is the best quality, and a little that is pure is worth more than much that is mixed. Teach me to see the local colour without being blind to the inner light. Give me an ideal that will stand the strain of weaving into human stuff on the loom of the real. Keep me from caring more for books than for folks, for art than for life. Steady me to do my full stint of work as well as I can: and when that is done, stop me, pay what wages Thou wilt, and help me to say, from a quiet heart, a grateful AMEN.

Author : Henry Van Dyke
Publisher : Independently Published
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Total Pages : 110 pages
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Download or read book The Ruling Passion written by Henry Van Dyke and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He entered the backwoods village of Bytown literally on the wings of the wind. It whirledhim along like a big snowflake, and dropped him at the door of Moody's "Sportsmen'sRetreat," as if he were a New Year's gift from the North Pole. His coming seemed a merechance; but perhaps there was something more in it, after all. At all events, you shall hear, ifyou will, the time and the manner of his arrival.It was the last night of December, some thirty-five years ago. All the city sportsmen whohad hunted the deer under Bill Moody's direction had long since retreated to their homes, leaving the little settlement on the border of the Adirondack wilderness wholly under thesocial direction of the natives.

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Author : Henry Van Dyke
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9780368290848
Total Pages : 88 pages
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Download or read book The Ruling Passion written by Henry Van Dyke and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of The Ruling Passion by Henry van Dyke is given by Ashed Phoenix - Million Book Edition