Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres are realiti...es; the former, that they are generalizations. For the latter, language is nothing but an approximative set of symbols; for the former, it is the map of the universe. The Platonist knows that the universe is somehow a cosmos, an order; that order, for the Aristotelian, can be an error or a fiction of our partial knowledge. Across the latitudes and the epochs, the two immortal antagonists change their name and language: one is Parmenides, Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Francis Bradley; the other, Heraclitus, Aristotle, Locke, Hume, William James.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here lies the body of William Jones Who all his life collected bones,... Till Death, that grim and boney spectre, That universal bone collector, Boned old Jones, so neat and tidy, And here he lies, all bona fide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it ...as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Touchstone. Art rich? William. Faith, sir, so, so.... Touchstone. "So, so" is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not, it is but so, so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you know I believe that [William Jennings] Bryan will force his nomination on the Democrats again. I believe he will either do ...this by advocating Prohibition, or else he will run on a Prohibition platform independent of the Democrats. But you will see that the year before the election he will organize a mammoth lecture tour and will make Prohibition the leading note of every address.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his gener...ation and one of the biggest political men of our country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And William had dudgeon for the sightless beadle Who worshipped a God like a grandmother on ice-skates,... For William saw two angels on the point of a needle As nobody since except W. B. Yeats.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now William pulled the lever down, And click-clack went the printing-press.... William was the only printer in town Who had peeped while the angels undress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell:... 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »