
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters
On Hallam's Constitutional History (1828)
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)
“The stupendous Fourth Estate, whose wide world-embracing influences what eye can take in?”
1830s, Boswell's Life of Johnson (1832)
“That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.”
Source: Gravity and Grace (1947), p. 154 (1972 edition)
Context: We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist — or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.
Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014
Source: Power Without Property, 1959, p. 75; As cited in: Richard Brinkman (2013) Corporate Pharaohs: A Vicious Circle of Globalization. p. 249.
Source: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), PART II: OTHER WORLDS, Chapter 19. How, Though the Sphere Showed Me Other Mysteries of Spaceland, I Still Desired More; and What Came of It
Context: p>O, my Lord, my Lord, behold, I cast myself in faith upon conjecture, not knowing the facts; and I appeal to your Lordship to confirm or deny my logical anticipations. If I am wrong, I yield, and will no longer demand a fourth Dimension; but, if I am right, my Lord will listen to reason.I ask therefore, is it, or is it not, the fact, that ere now your countrymen also have witnessed the descent of Beings of a higher order than their own, entering closed rooms, even as your Lordship entered mine, without the opening of doors or windows, and appearing and vanishing at will? On the reply to this question I am ready to stake everything. Deny it, and I am henceforth silent. Only vouchsafe an answer.SPHERE. (AFTER A PAUSE). It is reported so. But men are divided in opinion as to the facts. And even granting the facts, they explain them in different ways. And in any case, however great may be the number of different explanations, no one has adopted or suggested the theory of a Fourth Dimension.Therefore, pray have done with this trifling, and let us return to business.</p
Source: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 30.
VII, 50
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Context: That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements.