“Improvement in learning was no part of the thoughts or attention of our ancestors.”
4 Burr. Part IV., 2387.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)
Stonehenge: A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids, Preface. (1740).
“Improvement in learning was no part of the thoughts or attention of our ancestors.”
4 Burr. Part IV., 2387.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)
No. 10.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)
Source: A Family Collection: Life on the Farm and in the Country, Making a Home; the Ways of the World, a Woman's Role
“Wherever we look to the east or the west, Britain will always be our friend.”
As quoted in The British Empire in Colour http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0823159/, Episode II, The Wind Of Change
Preface (Scribner edition, 1872) <!-- New York, Scribner pp xxiv - xxv -->
Chips from a German Workshop (1866)
Context: It is necessary that we too should see the beam in our own eyes, and learn to distinguish between the Christianity of the nineteenth century and the religion of Christ. If we find that the Christianity of the nineteenth century does not win as many hearts in India and China as it ought, let us remember that it was the Christianity of the first century in all its dogmatic simplicity, but with its overpowering love of God and man, that conquered the worId and superseded religions and philosophies, more difficult to conquer than the religious and philosophical systems of Hindus and Buddhists. If we can teach something to the Brahmans in reading with them their sacred hymns, they too can teach us something when reading with us the gospel of Christ. Never shall I forget the deep despondency of a Hindu convert, a real martyr to his faith, who had pictured to himself from the pages of the New Testament what a Christian country must be, and who when he came to Europe found everything so different from what he had imagined in his lonely meditations at Benares!
Preface.
The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717)
The Secret Teachings of All Ages,The Druidic Mysteries of Britain & Gaul, p. 46, https://ia800809.us.archive.org/15/items/Thesecretteachingsofallages2/The%20Secret%20Teachings%20Of%20All%20Ages%20-%20Manly%20P.%20Hall.pdf
The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)
14 November 1878
Cosima Wagner's Diaries (1978)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 545.