Figure him there, with his scrofulous diseases, with his great greedy heart, and unspeakable chaos of thoughts; stalking mournful ...as a stranger in this Earth; eagerly devouring what spiritual thing he could come at: school-languages and other merely grammatical stuff, if there were nothing better! The largest soul that was in all England.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions of... the multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She, her head back, waited Barbarous the stalking tide;... Her, nor balked nor sated But plunged into the wide Area of mental ire, Lay at her wandering side.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We talk about a representative government; but what a monster of a government is that where the noblest faculties of the mind, and... the whole heart, are not represented! A semihuman tiger or ox, stalking over the earth, with its heart taken out and the top of its brain shot away. Heroes have fought well on their stumps when their legs were shot off, but I never heard of any good done by such a government as that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »