 | 1890 - 664 lapas
...generalization have outgrown it. Once it was the whole truth, so far as man's perception went; but now the best that can be said for it is that it is partial, and serves only to offend the modern sense of truth. We can no longer tolerate that the supreme... | |
 | Louis Mallet - 1891 - 398 lapas
...iv. p. 274). It is difficult for an economist to understand Mr. Mill's predilection for this system ; the best that can be said for it is that it is an inheritance of Oriental despotism, that the people are suggest something very different. It is,... | |
 | William Smart - 1895 - 368 lapas
...amount of concrete wealth, pass it through the bodies and hands of labour, and literally petrify it. The best that can be said for it is that it is petrifaction ; for one day this wealth may again assume a living form, and give back some at least... | |
 | John Alden, Arthur Russell, Russell Hillard Loines - 1896 - 126 lapas
...Wood-warnings." The freshness of the forest is there, and of the morning dew, in many of the lines. Yet the best that can be said for it is, that it is charming description of things lovely and joyful to behold. There is a promise, though, in the technical... | |
 | 1897 - 272 lapas
...or alkali water, which cattle and horses drink readily enough, though man refuses it as distasteful. The best that can be said for it is that it is wet. It is not uncommon to see a cow, and sometimes a hog, led by a rope tied to the rear of the wagon.... | |
 | Jack Thomas Grein, James Thomas Grein - 1899 - 312 lapas
...unprofitaWe ; is entirely devoid of intellectual force; is neither elevating not educating, but simply dull. The best that can be said for it is that it is honest — at least, honest in the sense that there is no evidence of traffic in money or even baser... | |
 | 1900 - 544 lapas
...heartily entertained by "/'//<• Idiot at Home, a poorly illustrated storiette by John Kendrick Bangs. The best that can be said for it is that it is irreproachable as to morals, and mildly droll in tone. The diot himself strikes us as a discursive... | |
 | National Society for the Study of Education - 1900 - 1068 lapas
...decaying humanity your hell.'" The poets have said as much ; Lowell, Meredith, Whitman, and others. And the best that can be said for it is that it is poetry. It certainly is not truth. For, as a recent writer has said, " it is demonstrably untrue that... | |
 | 1902 - 1236 lapas
...of the Rosebery Ministry. Much as we may admire the skilled workmanship of the AngloJapanese Treaty, the best that can be said for it is, that it is after all only a wooden leg, a brittle substitute for the sinewy member which it replaces. Printed... | |
 | Malcolm James McLeod - 1908 - 200 lapas
...disheartening; leaving as it does no place for prayer, no hope for love, no song for the cemetery. The best that can be said for it is that it is a message of pity, and pity is an easilystirred, short-lived emotion. " Take me and lull me into perfect... | |
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All this may seem plausible : but the best that can be said for it is, that it is an hypothesis that saves some difficulties; but there is no sort of proofs to make it appear to be true. 
