...he felt the whole vision turn to darkness and his very feet give way. His head went round; he was going; he had gone.


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HENRY JAMES
Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wak...
HENRY JAMES
One doesn't defend one's god; one's god is in himself a defense.
HENRY JAMES
He was holding his breath so as not to inhale the odor of democracy.
HENRY JAMES
It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agree...
HENRY JAMES
London is on the whole the most possible form of life.
HENRY JAMES
[Leaves of Grass is] monstrous because it pretends to persuade the soul while it slights the intelle...
HENRY JAMES
Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very ...
HENRY JAMES
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular so long...
HENRY JAMES
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
HENRY JAMES
Be not afraid of life believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.
HENRY JAMES
Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMES
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any stud...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known grou...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for t...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress wi...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
Life's to short for chess.
HENRY JAMES BYRON
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress wit...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always...
HENRY JAMES, JR.
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of ...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in th...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
When the injured humerus is accompanied by a serious rupture of the overlying soft tissue the injury...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries o...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
The attention given to the side of the head which has received the injury, in connection with a spec...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examinati...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
Very often conditions are recorded as observable "under thy fingers" [...] Among such observations i...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
[...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the larg...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of ...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of whi...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that ...
HENRY JAMES SR.
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressiv...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civili...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities alo...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
the distinction between nerves and vessels was not demonstrated until the Third Century B.C., when i...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
Increase Mather, President of Harvard University, in his treatise on Remarkable Providences, insists...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED