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The Wonders of Plant Life Under the Microscope - Page 27
by Sophia Bledsoe HERRICK - 1883 - 248 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 96

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 96

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...
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Essays, Selected from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review: Supplementary vol

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...
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Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, Volume 15

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...
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The Tin Trumpet: Or, Heads and Tails for the Wise and Waggish

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...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 46

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...
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Lectures on the science of language delivered at the Royal ..., Volume 2

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...
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Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 117

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....
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Man; Or, The Old and New Philosophy ...

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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