Let our conversation now be without precedent in fact or literature, each one speaking to the best of his ability the truth to the... best of his knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A frere ther was, a wantowne and a merye, A lymytour, a ful solempne man.... In alle the ordres foure is noon that kan So muchel of daliaunce and fair langage. He hadde maad ful many a mariage Of yonge wommen at his owene cost. Unto his ordre he was a noble post.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is rumored that in the fall the cows here are sometimes fed on cod's heads! The godlike part of the cod, which, like the human ...head, is curiously and wonderfully made, forsooth has but little less brain in it,--coming to such an end! to be craunched by cows! I felt my own skull crack from sympathy. What if the heads of men were to be cut off to feed the cows of a superior order of beings who inhabit the islands in the ether? Away goes your fine brain, the house of thought and instinct, to swell the cud of a ruminant animal!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies; but he is an extraord...inary man who will work a whole day in a year for the support of his soul. Even the priests, men of God, so called, for the most part confess that they work for the support of the body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »