 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 646 pages
...total ignorance of, sometimes in disgraceful contempt for, every scientific pursuit. In an age which ie emphatically the age of science, " Mid the mighty...railway, and the thoughts that shake mankind," a boy hae been suffered to know nothing of the world of wonder, of beauty, and of power, in which his lot... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 pages
...sometimes in disgraceful contempt for, every scientific pursuit. In an age which is emphatically the ago of science, " Mid the mighty march of mind. The steamship, and the railway, and the thoughts that shako mankind," a boy has been suffered to know nothing of the world of wonder, of beauty, and of power,... | |
 | George Coutie - 1875 - 296 pages
...and then ask if the nature of our studies be not to blame ... in the short-sighted neglect which has suffered our boys to grow up in total ignorance of,...of beauty, and of power, in which his lot is cast.' — Defects in Public School Education, by Rev. FW Farrar, DD, FRS, Head-master of Marlborough College,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1881 - 980 pages
...he was not so much in awe of her as to shirk honest statements — " I mean that you represent the march of mind — the steam-ship, and the railway, and the thoughts that shake mankind." She weighed his words, and said, slowly: "Ah, yes: you allude to my father. My father was a great man... | |
 | 1881 - 976 pages
...he was not so much in awe of her as to shirk honest Htatement« — " 1 mean that you represent the march of mind — the steamship, and the railway, and the thoughts that shake mankind." She weighed his words, and said slowly : " Ah, yes : you allude to my father. My father was a great... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1882 - 300 pages
...asked quickly, glancing from under her hat. "I mean," he answered quietly, "that you represent (. the march of mind— the steamship, and the railway, \ and the thoughts that shake mankind." She weighed his words, and said slowly: "Ah, yes: you allude to my father. My father was a great man;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1905 - 846 pages
...these movements ? But where are these ideas, or any of them, to be found in Matthew Arnold's poems? The 'march of mind,' the 'steamship and the railway and the thoughts that shake mankind,' the ' happy sails that bear the Press,' the ' parliament of man, the federation of the world,' the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1905 - 680 pages
...these movements ? But where are these ideas, or any of them, to be found in Matthew Arnold's poems? The 'march of mind,' the 'steamship and the railway and the thoughts that shake mankind,' the ' happy sails that bear the Press,' the ' parliament of man, the federation of the world,' the... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 652 pages
...our boy. to grow up in total ignorance of, sometimes in disgraceful contempt for, every scientiflo pursuit. In an age which is emphatically the age of science, Mid the mighty march of mind, Tb. u¿mâiip, sad the railway. and the thoughts that shake yn&nbind,” a boy has been suffered to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1905 - 686 pages
...these movements ? But where are these ideas, or any of them, to be found in Matthew Arnold's poems? The 'march of mind,' the 'steamship and the railway and the thoughts that shake mankind,' the ' happy sails that bear the Press,' the ' parliament of man, the federation of the world,' the... | |
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Ah, yes: you allude to my father. My father was a great man; but I am more and more forgetting his greatness: that kind of greatness is what a woman can never truly enter into. I am less and less his daughter every day that goes by. 
