...Everett's, on a cottage, and two lines, equally ingenious and delicate, from Mr. Madison, signed JM: " Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls must look below." And below are verses of Mrs. Madison. There is a flat complimentary prosaic of Mr. Clay....

...fray. Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all : Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below. Fops may have leave to level all they can, As pigmies would be glad to lop a man. Half-wits are fleas...

...slight, Will be of serious consequence to you, When they have made you once ridiculous. ROSCOMMON. Errors like straws upon the surface flow, He who would search for pearls must dive below. DRYDEN. SOUL-DEATH. — When a person dies at sea, the usual practice is to encase the corpse, and...

...into an ocean of statistics to bring up, perchance, facts of value which are now out of sight ; for " Errors like straws upon the surface flow, He who would search for pearls must dive below." We have no quarrel with Statistics properly understood and correctly applied. On the contrary, we desire...

...heightening and ennobling all ; The blossom of all manly virtues made His boyhood beautiful. Southey. ERRORS, like straws, upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls must dive below. Dryden. May 30th, UP to the strife with care, Be thine an oaken heart, Life's daily contest nobly share,...

...taste and a profounder knowledge, than indiscriminate fault-finding. As Dryden has justly remarked, " Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. " § 400. Abuse.—The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author arc those which often appear...

...on rigid scrutiny, are a sign of truthfulness. CHAPTER IX. ERROR AND FALLACY IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow : He -who would search for pearls must dive below. — DRYDEN. ERROR in science is an involuntary and unconscious deviation from the truth of nature....

...do with the imagination — intellect with the passions — or age with poetry. ********* 'Trifles, eck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. are lines which have done much mischief. As regards the greater truths, men oftener err by seeking...

...little to do with the imagination — intellect with the passions — or age with poetry. "Trifles, like straws, upon the surface flow, He who would search for pearls must dive below," are lines which have done much mischief. As regards the greater truths, men oftener err by seeking...

...those find jault whose Wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all: Errours like Straws upon the surface flow; He who would search for Pearls must dive below. Fops may have leave to level all they can; As Pigmies wou'd be glad to lopp a Man. Half-Wits are Fleas;...