- Author:
- O'Connor, V. C. Scott (Vincent Clarence Scott)
- Publication Info:
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London:
Hutchinson and co,
1904,
pg 36
Text on page 36
The Silken East v
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lively fancy, of wit, of creative power ;
of the man who enjoys life and finds in it infinite possibilities of amusement, of love, of good fellowship ; a man who has fashioned for himself a goodly standard of life, who lives well with little toil; above all, of a man whose being is permeated with a philosophic contempt for
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life to which he has reached ; a man without reserve force, without latent enthusiasms ; a slaveasuch a man for instance as the Chittagonian ; one of the economic superiors of the Burman. There is also the laziness of the man with a fine physique, with a sporting nature that exults in athletic expression, in racing, swimming, boxing, and rowing ; of the man w hose mind is
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