For me, on the other hand, Chesterton is a struggle to read. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » G.K. Chesterton, The Apostle of Common Sense:] Reference
To get the full sense of what Chesterton is stabbing at, I must quote him at some length. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
In symbolic terms, Chesterton is saying: ¬ (p → q), and you are countering with (q → p). From Wordnik.com. [superversive: Quotha] Reference
OUR civilization, pace Chesterton, is founded on coal, more completely than one realizes until one stops to think about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference
To be sure, most of the action takes place later, but it is in Chesterton's 1984 that Auberon Quin becomes King of England. From Wordnik.com. [Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses] Reference
The place I found was the "Country Cafe" in Chesterton. From Wordnik.com. [Day in the Life of an Idiot] Reference
There’s a passage somewhere in Chesterton, a parable about (IIRC) a wall or a gate. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Poll of VC Readers] Reference
I much prefer Doyle and those who followed such as Chesterton, Christie and Rex Stout. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
That he shares this with Chesterton is obvious. From Wordnik.com. [Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses] Reference
The ChesterBelloc Mandate: Noticias de la revista "Chesterton" España. From Wordnik.com. [Noticias de la revista "Chesterton" (España)] Reference
Second, to paraphrase Chesterton. From Wordnik.com. [The book by Joseph Ratzinger that "changed history"] Reference
Chesterton lays to his charge, 'worship militarism.'. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
This is the point that Chesterton brings out so well. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
This is what Chesterton describes in a delightful essay. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
Fairyland is for Chesterton the sunny land of commonsense. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
Chesterton has refrained from building on 'another's foundation.'. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
It has been said quite wrongly that Chesterton cannot describe pathos. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
Business is, according to Chesterton, a nasty thing that will not wait. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
For Chesterton, Imperialism is something that is both weak and perilous. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
'Orthodoxy' is probably the sanest book that Chesterton has ever written. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
But Chesterton was a plodding bookkeeper and would never be anything else. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
He had gotten rid of Chesterton by getting him the position at a distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
The book was for Chesterton a classic, and it was so because it was an autobiography. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
Of course, Chesterton is not an essayist in the really accepted manner of an essayist. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
Chesterton has his own ideas of what is wrong, and he says so with astonishing paradox. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
Even Chesterton must say something about these schools that are the backbone of England. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
By and by it seemed to Chesterton that his old comrade was running pretty close to the wind. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
Chesterton devotes a large section of this book to demanding what is the mistake of Feminism. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
As an essayist, Chesterton is never dull: the philosophy contained in his essays is not prosy. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
Really Dickens wanted to have a say about everything, in which he is strangely like Chesterton. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
This, I think, Chesterton feels when he says of the penny novelette that it is the literature to. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
Chesterton said that it was not himself, but Grimes, who had been successful as an amateur actor. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
This in turn ensured that many of them were specimens of what Chesterton called 'good-bad poetry'. From Wordnik.com. ['The Oxford Book of Parodies'] Reference
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