United States or Ghana ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
His prejudice against Scotland was announced almost as soon as he began to appear in the world of letters. In his London, a poem, are the following nervous lines: For who would leave, unbrib'd, Hibernia's land Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand There none are swept by sudden fate away; But all, whom hunger spares, with age decay.
Christ said to the first two that followed Him, 'Come and see. Philip met Nathanael's thin film of prejudice with the same words, 'Come and see. Christ greeted the approaching Nathanael with 'When thou wast under the fig tree I saw thee. And now His promise is cast into the same metaphor: 'Thou shalt see greater things than these. There is a double antithesis here.
She wanted him to go to college, but by this time "Nick" was nineteen and as highly developed a snob as her maternal heart had planned. Knowing that he must support himself eventually, he was determined to begin his business career at once, and believed, with some truth, that there was a prejudice in this broad field against college men.
They should be able and learned that they may appreciate the real meaning, purpose, and scope of the constitution and statutes; calm and equable in temperament that they may not be influenced by sympathy, prejudice, or other emotions; strong and courageous in character that they may resist all pressure other than fair argument.
And all the assemblage bowed before the mist, and made it king, and set it on the brow of many a mountain, where, when it is not doing evil, it may be often seen to this day. Dunsford. Well, I like that fable: only I am not quite clear about the meaning. Ellesmere. You had no doubt about mine. Dunsford. Is the mist calumny, Milverton? Ellesmere. No, prejudice, I am sure. Dunsford.
Professor Ernst Troeltsch, so free from natural prejudice in favour of such a Sense-and-Spirit position, has become perhaps the most adequate exponent of this great fact of life, which is ever in such danger of evaporation amidst the intellectual and leading minority of men.
She was no longer the self-reliant, petted creature of the circus, where environment and adversity formed a training-school for disaster, but a delicate, refined flower set out in a new soil to thrive or wither as the winds of prejudice blow. In the other days she could have laughed with glee at the vagaries of that self-same wind, but now, ah, now it was different. She was not Little Starbright.
'A thousand a year on the marriage, and the same amount to the first child. I daresay the end would be that they would get all. Sir Franks nodded, and remained with one eye-brow pitiably elevated above the level of the other. 'Anything but a tailor! he exclaimed presently, half to himself. 'There is a prejudice against that craft, her ladyship acquiesced.
You must be prepared, therefore, to hear my opinions attacked with all the virulence of established interest, and all the pertinacity of confirmed prejudice; you will hear them made the subjects of every species of satire and invective; but one kind of opposition to them you will never hear; you will never hear them met by quiet, steady, rational argument; for that is the one way in which they cannot be met.
The patients, it may be observed, were not Boer combatants but Cape rebels, liable to instant execution. 'This, she says, 'is another instance of the "ferocity" with which, according to the European press, the English butchers have conducted the war. The Sisters of Nazareth in South Africa are a body who are above political or racial prejudice.
Word Of The Day