 But supposing the phenomena to be genuine — they do not interest me. If anybody would endow me with the faculty of listening to the chatter of old women and curates in the nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better things...  American Illustrated Magazine - Página 5841909Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | London Dialectical Society - 1871 - 440 páginas
...endow me with the faculty of listening to the chatter of old women and curates in the nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better...same category. , " The only good that I can see in a demonstration of the truth of ' Spiritualism ' is to furnish an additional argument against suicide.... | |
 | London Dialectical Society - 1873 - 370 páginas
...endow me with the faculty of listening to the chatter of old women and curates in the nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better...the same category. " The only good that I can see in a demonstration of the truth of ' Spiritualism ' is to furnish an additional argument against suicide.... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1877 - 452 páginas
...endow me with the faculty of listening to the chatter of old women and curates at the nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better...report them to do, I put them in the same category." possible twaddle that may be educed. But we are most anxious that such men as Huxley should do so,... | |
 | 1874 - 638 páginas
...endow me with the faculty of listening to the chatter of old women and curates at the nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better...report them to do, I put them in the same category. " Here is a learned savant who affirms that, if the Spiritual phenomena are real, he has no interest... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1874 - 86 páginas
...with the faculty of listening to the chatter of old women and cu- • rates at tho nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better...if the folk in the spiritual world do not talk more wieel y_and sensibly than their friends report them to do, I put them in the same category." This passage,... | |
 | Charles Maurice Davies - 1875 - 428 páginas
...endow me with the faculty of listening to the chatter of old women and curates in the nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better...the same category. " The only good that I can see in a demonstration of the truth of ' spiritualism' is to furnish an additional argument against suicide.... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1875 - 256 páginas
...endow me with the faculty of listening to the chatter of old women and curates at the nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better...report them to do, I put them in the same category." This passage, written with the caustic satire in which the kind-hearted Professor occasionally indulges,... | |
 | Charles Maurice Davies - 1895 - 344 páginas
...endow me with the faculty of listening to the chatter of old women and curates in the nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better...the same category. "The only good that I can see in a demonstration of the truth of ' spiritualism ' is to furnish an additional argument against suicide.... | |
 | 1910 - 740 páginas
...point made by the late Professor Huxley, who said he took no interest in the subject. He adds : — " If anybody would endow me with the faculty of listening...do, I put them in the same category. The only good I can see in the demonstration of the ' Truth of Spiritualism ' is to furnish an additional argument... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine (Spirit) - 1896 - 72 páginas
...endow me with the faculty of listening to the chatter of old women and curates at the nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better...report them to do, I put them in the same category." This pasage, Mr. Wallace describes as having been writen with the caustic satire in which the kind-hearted... | |
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