"We may smile at these matters, but they……" — Joseph Howe
"We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations."
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8 Quotes by Joseph Howe
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My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit…
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My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from…
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Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.
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Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury…
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They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that…
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Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be…
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Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles…
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More Illustration Quotes
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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we…
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In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial…
— Noam Chomsky
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As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as…
— Isaac Newton
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I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which…
— Michael Faraday
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The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer…
— Hugh Miller
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[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in…
— Charles Lyell
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Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and…
— Edward Forbes
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In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample…
— Unknown Author
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We're all looking at the people around us, the people who have gone before us who have succeeded in recovery…
— Scott Stevens
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If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to…
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