I see no reason whatever that justice may not be done to the few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may really possess. I have sometimes perhaps felt a little uneasy at Exeter Change from contrasting the monkeys with the... The Wonders of Plant Life Under the Microscope - Page 27by Sophia Bledsoe HERRICK - 1883 - 248 pagesFull view - About this book
| English literature - 1855 - 626 pages
...security in my opinion, than of magnanimity or of liberality ; but I confess I feel myself so much at my ease about the superiority of mankind — I have such...few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may really possess. I have sometimes perhaps felt a little uneasy at Exeter Change from... | |
| English literature - 1855 - 624 pages
...ha\e such a marked and decided contempt for the understanding of every baboon I have ever seen—I feel so sure that the blue ape without a tail will...few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may really possess. I have sometimes perhaps felt a little uneasy at Exeter Change from... | |
| Henry Rogers - English essays - 1855 - 428 pages
...without a tail will never rival us in poetry, painting, and music, — that I see no reason whatever why justice may not be done to the few fragments of soul, and tatters of understanding, which they may really possess. I have sometimes, perhaps, felt a little uneasy at Exeter 'Change, from... | |
| English periodicals - 1857 - 548 pages
...security in my opinion, than of magnanimity or of liberality ; but I confess I feel myself so much at my ease about the superiority of mankind — I have such...few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may really possess. I have sometimes perhaps felt a little uneasy at Exeter Change from... | |
| Horace Smith - English wit and humor - 1859 - 282 pages
...without a tail will never rival us in poetry, painting, and music,—that I see no reason whatever, why justice may not be done to the few fragments of soul, and tatters of understanding, which they may really possess. I have sometimes, perhaps, felt a little uneasy at Exeter 'Change, from... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1859 - 670 pages
...rival us in poetry, painting, and music — as to concede, with ineffable complacency, that all justice be done to the " few fragments of soul, and tatters of understanding," which they may really possess. " I have sometimes, perhaps," his Reverence fairly owns, " felt a little... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - Language and languages - 1861 - 422 pages
...ever be uneasy. His true superiority rests on different grounds. "I confess," Sydney Smith writes, "I feel myself so much at ease about the superiority...few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may really possess." Tlie playfulness of Sydney Smith in handling serious and sacred subjects... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1862 - 454 pages
...ever be uneasy. His true superiority rests on different grounds. " I confess," Sydney Smith writes, " I feel myself so much at ease about the superiority...few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may really possess." The playfulness of Sydney Smith in handling serious and sacred subjects... | |
| 1863 - 624 pages
...? . . . I feel so sure that the blue ape without a tail will never rival us in poetry, painting, or music, that I see no reason whatever that justice...few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may really possess.' To these questions structural organisation gives no answer at all.... | |
| Bourchier Wrey Savile - Human beings - 1863 - 338 pages
...without a tail will never rival us in poetry, painting, and music — that I see no reason whatever why justice may not be done to the few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may really possess. I have sometimes, perhaps, felt a little uneasy at Exeter 'Change, from... | |
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