... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of l...iving is bitterness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ...... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New Yorkers speak more quickly and shift topics more rapidly. We all know that. But the way it's done is fascinating. At least it ...fascinated me when I first moved to New York. Someone has the floor and talks. As soon as I know what they are going to say, I can jump in, finish the sentence to show I understand, and take off into my own turn. The northern California I know isn't like that. Someone talks, and I lie back and listen and let them roll for a while. When they're done, there'll be a pause that will flash like a green light to announce that someone else can have the floor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegaean, and it brought... Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies ...is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot ...it out altogether.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the cold of Europe, under prudish northern fogs, except when slaughter is afoot, you only glimpse the crawling cruelty of your ...fellow men. But their rottenness rises to the surface as soon as they are tickled by the hideous fevers of the tropics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to pre...sent itself to the world as a Scotch banker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »