 | Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 580 pages
...thought even more than upon what I said in my letter to you. My convictions, positive and negative, on all the matters of which you speak, are of long...mass of mankind? To which my only reply was and is —Oh devil ! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley - 1901 - 576 pages
...had I lived a couple of centuries earlier I could have fancied a devil scoffing at me and them—and asking me what profit it was to have stripped myself...mass of mankind? To which my only reply was and is —Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1901 - 1060 pages
...he says: "Had I lived a couple of centuries earlier, I could have fancied a devil scoffing at me . and asking me what profit it was to have stripped...and consolations of the mass of mankind; to which my onhr reply was, and is, O devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds... | |
 | 1901 - 134 pages
...scoffing at me and them, and asking me, what profit it was to have stripped myself of the hopes and the consolations of the mass of mankind? To which my only reply was and is — Oh, devil ! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 336 pages
...says : " Had I lived a couple of centuries earlier, I could have fancied a devil scoffing at me . . . and asking me what profit it was to have stripped...grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame were all to be lost to me one after the other, as the penalty, still I will not lie." This striking... | |
 | 1903 - 642 pages
...his child's death : "Had I lived a century earlier, I could have fancied a devil scoffing at me . . . and asking me what profit it was to have stripped...mankind. To which my only reply was and is, ' O devil t truth is better than much profit.' " And yet in Henley's generous and loving tribute to RAM Stevenson,... | |
 | 1903 - 648 pages
...child's death : " Had I lived a century earlier, I could have fancied a devil scoffing at me . . . and asking me what profit it was to have stripped...mass of mankind. To which my only reply was and is, ' 0 devil ! truth is better than much profit.' " And yet in Henley's generous and loving tribute to... | |
 | James Hervey Hyslop - 1905 - 672 pages
...thought even more than upon what I said in my letter to you. My convictions, positive and negative, on all the matters of which you speak, are of long...mass of mankind? To which my only reply was and is — Oh the devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief,... | |
 | James Hervey Hyslop - 1905 - 674 pages
...thought even more than upon what I said in my letter to you. My convictions, positive and negative, on all the matters of which you speak, are of long...mass of mankind ? To which my only reply was and is — Oh the devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief,... | |
 | James Hervey Hyslop - 1905 - 676 pages
...matters of /'%/' ' which you speak, are of long and slow growth and are firmly rooted. But the 1 j great blow which fell upon me seemed to stir them...mass of mankind ? To which my only reply was and is — Oh the devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief,... | |
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But the great blow which fell upon me seemed to stir them to their foundation, and had I lived a couple of centuries earlier I could have fancied a devil scoffing at me and them — and asking me what profit it was to have stripped myself of the hopes... 
