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They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.

~George Combe

Topics: Any Brute Brute Force Chooses England Few Force Her Invader Like Mass Me Midst Nation Nonsense Overwhelming Robbed Seemed Shores Submission Submit Visit Who Wisdom

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I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.

~George Combe

Topics: Air Alarm American Astonishment Avoid Catching Caused Cold Dread First Generally Gentlemen Had Hats Ladies Opened Put Some Then Widely Windows

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While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

~George Combe

Topics: Acknowledge Cases Character Conducting Divine Gentlemen Human Individual Law Mode Morality Natural No Law Obligation Others Preserve Scotland Some Them While Who

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And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.

~George Combe

Topics: Agents Always Back Bar Bold Cases Deny Desperate Found He Lend Man Men Most Nothing Services Support Who Will

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We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.

~George Combe

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The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world.

~George Combe

Topics: Although Enjoyment Friends Indifferent Invaluable Me Mind My Own Numerous Own Rest Sufficient Texture Very Whom World

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He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.

~George Combe

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Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.

~George Combe

Topics: Attention Become Brain Brief Liable Locomotive Long Means Mind Much Muscles Proposed Rest Take Taught Them Therefore Thinks Too Too Much Us Walking

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I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed.

~George Combe

Topics: Absence Air Also Attention Breathed Contained Full Had Hall Hour Lost Means Much Must Needed Properties Renewed Vital Which

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The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.

~George Combe

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: October 21st, 1788

Died: August 14th, 1858

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