"Better-known" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Of these there were two distinct classes—those where the person concerned had been purely passive; and, secondly, those in which he himself had to some extent cooperated. The first class have been noticed by Cowper, the poet, and by George Herbert, the well-known pious brother of the still better-known infidel, Lord Herbert, (of Cherbury,) in a memorable sonnet; scintillations they are of what seems nothing less than providential lights oftentimes arresting our attention, from the very centre of what else seems ...
— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey
... off to sleep, feeling our visit had been well worth the little inconveniences we laughed away. Finland is much to be preferred for a holiday than many better-known countries. ...
— Through Finland in Carts • Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie
... nature of the tail was Huxley's most striking discovery. He pointed out that ordinary Ascidians begin life as tiny tadpole-like creatures which swim freely by the aid of a long caudal appendage; and that while these better-known Ascidians lose their tails when they settle down into adult life, the Appendiculariae are Ascidians which retain this larval structure throughout life. Von Baer had shown that in the great natural groups of higher animals some forms occur which typify, in their adult condition, ...
— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell |
