Published 1997
by Graywolf Press in Saint Paul, Minn .
Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | by Martha Bergland. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PS3552.E71925 I35 1997 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 170 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 170 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL1020243M |
| ISBN 10 | 1555972578 |
| LC Control Number | 96078744 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 36918985 |
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Earlier this week, out of idle curiosity I picked up Katherine Stewart’s new book The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism. Stewart—the author of a somewhat Author: John Ehrett. Leo Rosten — ‘People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.’. It might have been the prompting of idle curiosity. That being true, you should now be well satisfied. It might have been for financial reasons. (On yonder Book, etc giving D-G of all 3 Degrees - one with each "this") 5. I swore the Portals close to guard, Of the Masonic Temple, To rid the quarries of their dross. Finding Doctrine and Meaning in Book of Mormon Isaiah one with idle curiosity, generally will not go.” Since Nephi clearly states that he loves as the full quote indicates, he was referring to the entire Book of Mormon. “The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so ‘slow,’ so sleepy; such an insipid.
As A.P. Bentley wrote in his book History of the Abduction of William Morgan and the Anti-Masonic Excitement of , The two men “entered into partnership to print a book which the public. Bergland's second (A Farm under a Lake, ) veers close to farmland soap opera, but the author's sharp eye, nonjudgmental way of appraising her characters, and crisp, true knowledge of the locale she's writing about raise it well above familiarities of plot. After farming for most of his life, Ed Check, ``almost eighty years old,'' is retired, living in the local hotel of the little country Author: Martha Bergland. This important and difficult book has made this reader want to understand such riddles better - and not out of idle curiosity. From Cambridge English Corpus An inquiry into institutions may supply the analytical knowledge essential to a program of social control or it may do no more than set adventures for idle curiosity. Idle curiosity consists in the blinding desire for novelties of all types: from political news to the latest scandals or romantic entanglements of neighbors or movie stars. It is idle because the person obsessed by such things looks at everything without seeing anything, without fixing his attention on immediate, proximate things.
