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Illustration Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those…
- When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;…
- The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety…
More Illustration Quotes
- Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have… — Kate Adie
- In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards… — Noam Chomsky
- As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a… — Isaac Newton
- I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ… — Michael Faraday
- The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his… — Hugh Miller
- [My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration… — Charles Lyell
- Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only,… — James Clerk Maxwell
- Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The… — Edward Forbes
- In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at… — Unknown Author
- We're all looking at the people around us, the people who have gone before us who have succeeded in recovery and have… — Scott Stevens
- If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from… — Jack Hyles