“Comets encountering these precincts must be perplexed to decide between the two potentates claiming their allegiance, and perhaps on occasions pay their court to each in turns, throwing out tails, as they do so, in all sorts of anomalous and contradictory directions.”
Of the nature of any planetary system round the double star Alpha Centauri; p. 168.
The System of the Stars (1890)
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“We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.”
Cooper v. Griffin (1892), 61 L. J. Rep. Q. B. 566.
“There are circumstances under which the anomalous should be courted. Ignorance is one of them.”
Part 2, Chapter 7 (p. 123)
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“While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.”
Part I, chapter 3.
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“Perhaps it may turn out a sang,
Perhaps turn out a sermon.”
Stanza 1
Epistle to a Young Friend (1786)