It was so long since I'd seen masses of young men that I'd forgotten how much pleasanter men of between twenty and thirty were to ...be around with than older men. It isnt so true of women. When I was in my twenties I thought the grown adults I ran into were a disaster and now I know I was right.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children..., as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man,--a sort of breeding in and in, which produces at most a merely English nobility, a civilization destined to have a speedy limit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited Sketches, full of Variety and Glow?--How could I possibly join them on to<...br />the little bit (two Inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush, as produces little effect after much labour?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cheering sound of "Dinner is upon the table," dissolved his reverie.... Mr. Wilkes placed himself next to Dr. Johnson, and beh...aved to him with so much attention and politeness, that he gained upon him insensibly.... Mr. Wilkes was very assiduous in helping him to some fine veal. "Pray give me leave, Sir:MIt is better here--A little of the brown--Some fat, Sir--A little of the stuffing--Some gravy--Let me have the pleasure of giving you some butter--Allow me to recommend a squeeze of this orange;Mor the lemon, perhaps, may have more zest."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life ... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfini...shed business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The child receives data through the sense organs; the child also has some inborn processing capacities--otherwise it would not be ...able to learn--but in addition, some "information" or "programs" are built-in at birth (for example, the child does not have to learn how to suck, for this is an innate reflex); there is a working memory, in which the child keeps those items of knowledge that are being used at a particular moment; and there is a permanent memory, which is, in Locke's terms, largely a "blank tablet" at birth, but which has a storage capacity that makes a hard disk pale into insignificance. The child gradually builds up a symbolic representation of the world around it, so there must be some inner "language" or medium of representation; even a newborn baby is starting to see and taste and smell and hear and touch, and to remember the more striking of its experiences, so the internal medium by which it represents and stores these impressions cannot be the native language (of which it is still ignorant. Jerry Fodor [in The Language of Thought] has discussed this inbuilt "language of thought," which is similar conceptually to the "machine language" that is built into the personal computer and about which most users remain completely ignorant).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pardon, my Mother Church, if I consent That Angels led him when from thee he went,... For even in Error sure no Danger is When joyn'd with so much Piety as His.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the st...ate, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »