The hardiest skeptic who has seen a horse broken, a pointer trained, or has visited a menagerie or the exhibition of the Industrio...us Fleas, will not deny the validity of education. "A boy," says Plato, "is the most vicious of all beasts;" and in the same spirit the old English poet Gascoigne says, "A boy is better unborn than untaught."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is ...a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the c...ave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This universal exhibition in Canada of the tools and sinews of war reminded me of the keeper of a menagerie showing his animals' c...laws. It was the English leopard showing his claws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »