Human Intercourse - 9781548299927

I will not close this preface without saying that the happiness of sympathetic human intercourse seems to me incomparably greater than any other pleasure. I may be supposed to have passed the age of enthusiastic illusions, yet I would at any time rather pass a week with a real friend in any place that afforded simple shelter than with an indifferent person in a palace. In saying this I am thinking of real experiences. One of my friends who is devoted to arch?ological excavations has often invited me to share his life in a hut or a cottage, and I have invariably found that the pleasure of his society far overbalanced the absence of luxury. On the other hand, I have sometimes endured extreme ennui at sumptuous feasts in richly appointed houses.

• | Author: Philip Gilbert Hamerton
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Jun 28, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 274 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1548299928
• | ISBN-13: 9781548299927