Although then a printer by trade, he listed himself in this early directory as an antiquarian. When he was asked the reason for th...is he replied that he always thought every town should have at least one antiquarian, and since none appeared for the post, he volunteered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear:... We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors.... I cannot understand how an innocent hand can t...ouch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer..., science is a process of fabricating a web of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiments and observations and fruitful of further experiments and observations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light... I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true pren...tices again, and let them be denizens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough ...fibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred spool spoils the web through a piece of a hundred yards, and is traced back to the... girl that wove it, and lessens her wages. The stockholder, on being shown this, rubs his hands with delight. Are you so cunning Mr. Profitloss, and do you expect to swindle your master and employer, in the web you weave? A day is more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleazy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter steel, or more inflexible shaft, will not testify in the web.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »