Kennedy benefited, too, from the fact that the country perceived him to be, like Roosevelt, a patrician. To be sure, Kennedy did n...ot boast a seventeenth-century lineage or descend from the landed gentry. Yet in other respects they were similar. Both had gone to prestigious prep schools; both were Harvard men; both had sailed the New England coast; each had a sense of noblesse oblige. Like Roosevelt, Kennedy was a man of inherited wealth who could, to a degree, view business from the outside. In comparing Kennedy to Roosevelt, a columnist for the New Republic observed: "Each had an upper-class education, found a life of public service more attractive than money-grabbing, and each had a respect for the decencies. At heart, too, each had a kind of patrician reticence, an impervious private dignity."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried, As he landed his crew with care;... Supporting each man on the top of the tide By a finger entwined in his hair. "Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice: That alone should encourage the crew. Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms--neve...r--never--never!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to rea...d Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust.... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will.... Each hour is precious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greed...y and ferocious pirates. They were all alike, they took everything they could carry, they burned, harried, violated, tortured, and killed until everything English was brought to the verge of ruin. Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are fortunate to have inherited an institution (the House of Lords) which we certainly should never have had the intelligence t...o create. We might have been landed with something like the American Senate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a great buck it powerfully appeared, Pushing the crumpled water up ahead,... And landed pouring like a waterfall, And stumbled through the rocks with horny tread, And forced the underbrush--and that was all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all... men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,--why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,--that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »