ReminiscencesMacmillan, 1923 - 485 páginas |
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Página 31 - THIS is the creed — let no man chuckle — Of the great thinker, Henry Buckle ; " I believe in fire and water, And in Fate, Dame Nature's daughter ; Consciousness I set aside — The dissecting knife's my guide ; I believe in steam and rice.
Página 194 - He hath said, which heard the words of God, And knew the knowledge of the Most High, Which saw the vision of the Almighty, Falling into a trance, but having his eyes open...
Página 343 - Which sendeth amhassadors on the sea : And in vessels of papyrus on the face of the waters. Go, ye swift messengers, To a nation...
Página 21 - My Dear Colenso, With regret, We hierarchs, in conclave met, Beg you, you most disturbing writer, To take off your colonial mitre. This course we press upon you strongly: Believe me, II.
Página 228 - Parliament in 1783, but his career both in the House of Commons and in the House of Lords was in striking contrast with that at the bar.
Página 277 - The days passed quickly in which,- as Mahaffy said, we lived over again the days of the Renaissance. Now, as then, lost fragments of classical literature were constantly coming to light along with copies of existing works centuries older than any manuscripts of them previously known. Day after day we pored over the precious texts in my College rooms until the dinner hour arrived, when we discussed our discoveries and hopes with other scholars over the dessert and wine of the Common Room. It was an...
Página 14 - ... seen them. By Saturday night, however, his toothache was cured, and his sleep accordingly was sounder than usual. He was startled out of it by feeling the same " cold, clammy hand " as that described by his wife, and, as he opened his eyes, seeing the same figure retreating into the dressing-room. He looked at his watch and found that it was four o'clock. He got out of bed and sponged his face and head with cold water ; then returned to the bed and sat up in it for a moment or two. Before he...
Página 301 - Tel el-Amarna tablets and its revelation of the use of writing in the pre-Mosaic age, then that of the legal code of Khammurabi, the contemporary of Abraham, and finally that of the Aramaic papyri of Elephantine. With hardly an exception the archaeological discoveries of the last thirty-five years in the Nearer East have been dead against the conclusions of the self-appointed critic and on the side of ancient tradition.
Página 13 - I happened to turn to the right and there saw a man standing a few steps away at the entrance of the dressingroom. I can still see him as he stood facing me, with a closely-shaven face, fine features, dark -brown hair parted in the middle, and a dark coat buttoned below the chin like an oriental Stambouli or a clerical coat. The button was of gold, and there was a gold button also on either wrist.
Página 301 - ... explained that I dealt with the Old Testament simply as an archaeologist. Just as the archaeological discoveries in the Mediterranean had given a death-blow to the " critical " theories about Homer and the early traditions of Greece, so similar discoveries were now giving the same death-blow to the theories about the Old Testament and its contents which had been imported from Germany. Subjective fantasies must make way for the solid facts of science which were at last being recovered. One after...