"Combe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... COMBE, GEORGE (1788-1858).—Writer on phrenology and education, b. in Edin., where for some time he practised as a lawyer. Latterly, however, he devoted himself to the promotion of phrenology, and of his views on education, for which he in 1848 founded a school. ...
— A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature • John W. Cousin
... have seen deep down in the clear waters, the firmly-cemented stones of a causeway, which must once have traversed the plain, and the line of which may be not indistinctly descried stretching far out to seaward from the mouth of a little combe. It is true that geologists whom we have consulted ridicule the fancy of masonry offering such resistance to the tides, and explain it away as a pebble-ridge built up by the action of currents. And perhaps we might mention in this connection, that one of ...
— Uppingham by the Sea - a Narrative of the Year at Borth • John Henry Skrine
... he ffound him Child Maurice Sitting vpon a blocke, With a siluer combe in his hand, ...
— Ballads of Romance and Chivalry - Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series • Frank Sidgwick
... sure, to night thou shalt haue cramps, Side-stitches, that shall pen thy breath vp, Vrchins Shall for that vast of night, that they may worke All exercise on thee: thou shalt be pinch'd As thicke as hony-combe, each pinch more stinging Then Bees that ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... at the top of Swinside, a glen about four miles from Broughton. It consists of 50 stones, 90 yards in circumference; and is on the fell, which is part of the range terminating in Black Combe.—Ed.] ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Volume 1 of 8 • Edited by William Knight
... montagne est cultivee et riche dans certain cantons, surtout autour du village d'Oris, mais elle est tres-escarpee dans beaucoup d'autres. Entre le village d'Oris et celui du Tresnay est une espece de combe assez creuse formee par la chute des eaux des cimes superieures des rochers. Cette combe offre beaucoup de schiste dont les couches font ou tres-inclinees ou perpendiculaires. Entre ces couches il s'en est trouve de plus noires ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) • James Hutton
... summer of 1671 she made the acquaintance of Father La Combe, who came with an introductory letter from her half-brother Father La Mothe. He was in search of inward peace, and Madame Guyon's counsels, the outcome of deep thought and Divine enlightenment, were of great ...
— Excellent Women • Various
... years of last century is demonstrated by a reference to the Library Catalogue of the British Museum, where we find pamphlet after pamphlet, broadsheet after broadsheet, treating of the adventures, trial, and execution of this youthful jailbird. Even George Combe, the phrenologist, most famous in his day, sat in judgment upon the young man while he was in prison, and published a pamphlet which made a great impression upon prison reformers. Combe submitted his observations to Haggart in jail, and told ...
— George Borrow and His Circle - Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of - Borrow And His Friends • Clement King Shorter
... Christianity we find almost an exaggerated stress laid on the duty of saving one's soul. This excessive estimate is chiefly seen in the monastic system of the Roman Church, and in the Calvinistic sects of Protestantism. It also comes to light again, curiously enough, in such books as Combe's "Constitution of Man," the theory of which is exactly the same as that of the Buddhists; namely, that the aim of life is a prudential virtue, consisting in wise obedience to the natural laws of the ...
— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke
... who does not in this working world? "I am bothered to death," she writes, "with article-reading and scrap-work of all sorts; it is clear my poor head will never produce anything under these circumstances; but I am patient.... I had a long call from George Combe yesterday. He says he thinks the Westminster under my management the most important means of enlightenment of a literary nature in existence; the Edinburgh, under Jeffrey, nothing to it, etc. I ...
— Lives of Girls Who Became Famous • Sarah Knowles Bolton |
