# A happy half-century, and other essays Author: Repplier, Agnes, 1855-1950 Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68195 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+happy+half-century%2C+and+other+essays+Repplier&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary The half-century, whose more familiar aspects this little book is designed to illustrate, has spread its boundary lines. Nothing is so hard to deal with as a period. Nothing is so unmanageable as a date. People will be born a few years too early; they will live a few years too long. Events will happen out of time. The closely linked decades refuse to be separated, and my half-century, that I thought so compact, widened imperceptibly while I wrote. ## Chapters - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-happy-half-century-and-other-essays-68195/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-happy-half-century-and-other-essays-68195/chapters/9/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-happy-half-century-and-other-essays-68195/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-happy-half-century-and-other-essays-68195/chapters/8/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-happy-half-century-and-other-essays-68195/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-happy-half-century-and-other-essays-68195/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-happy-half-century-and-other-essays-68195/chapters/11/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-happy-half-century-and-other-essays-68195/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-happy-half-century-and-other-essays-68195/chapters/10/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-happy-half-century-and-other-essays-68195/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-happy-half-century-and-other-essays-68195/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-happy-half-century-and-other-essays-68195/chapters/12/index.md)