"A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated……" — Henry Mayhew
"A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind."
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16 Quotes by Henry Mayhew
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The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.
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The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
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There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns…
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Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved
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Advice to persons about to marry - don't
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The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought…
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Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there…
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But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at…
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I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the…
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We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles
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The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and…
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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the…
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More Assimilated Quotes
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Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body)…
— George Washington
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Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself;…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part…
— Bertrand Russell
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The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their…
— Nadia Boulanger
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I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.
— Anton Yelchin
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Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you…
— Camilla Gibb
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An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between…
— Wilfred Trotter
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Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one…
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
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Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these…
— Jeremy Silman
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