It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been b...rought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we are the younger, we may envy the older. If we are the older, we may feel that the younger is always being indulged. In other... words, no matter what position we hold in family order of birth, we can prove beyond a doubt that we're being gypped.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is that he may ...communicate a thought or an impression to his reader without the reader's realizing that he has been dragged through a series of hazardous or grotesque syntactical situations. In photography the goal seems to be to prove beyond a doubt that the cameraman, in his great moment of creation, was either hanging by his heels from the rafters or was wedged under the floor with his lens in a knothole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Given the existence ... of a personal God ... who ... loves us dearly ... it is established beyond all doubt ... that man ... wast...es and pines ... for reasons unknown.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If ever I should condescend to prose, I'll write poetical commandments, which... Shall supersede beyond all doubt all those That went before; in these I shall enrich My text with many things that no one knows, And carry precept to the highest pitch: I'll call the work 'Longinus o'er a Bottle, Or, Every Poet his own Aristotle.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It comes down to a doubt about the wisdom Of having children after having had them,... So there is nothing we can do about it But warn the children they perhaps should have none.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection o...f suburbs. Its inhabitants ... do not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most familiar sheet of water, viewed from a new hilltop, yields a novel and unexpected pleasure. When we have traveled a few m...iles, we do not recognize the profiles even of the hills which overlook our native village, and perhaps no man is quite familiar with the horizon as seen from the hill nearest to his house, and can recall its outline distinctly when in the valley. We do not commonly know, beyond a short distance, which way the hills range which take in our houses and farms in their sweep. As if our birth had at first sundered things, and we had been thrust up through into nature like a wedge, and not till the wound heals and the scar disappears do we begin to discover where we are, and that nature is one and continuous everywhere. It is an important epoch when a man who has always lived on the east side of a mountain, and seen it in the west, travels round and sees it in the east. Yet the universe is a sphere whose centre is wherever there is intelligence. The sun is not so central as a man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-poi...nt pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with the Sunday paper rolled up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving i...s God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »