 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...It was when I made the Grand Tour, especially in Italy. Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook ; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. I can prove some facts about travelling by a story or two. There are certain principles to be assumed,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 pages
...it was when I made the Grand Tour, especially in Italy. Memory is a net ; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook ; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. I can prove some facts about travelling by a story or two. There are certain principles to be assumed,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 242 pages
...it was when I made the Grand Tour, especially in Italy. Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. I can prove some facts about travelling by a story or two. There are certain principles to be assumed,—... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1875 - 444 pages
...especially in Italy. Memory is a net ; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the hrook ; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. I can prove some facts about travelling by a story or two. There are certain principles to be assumed,... | |
 | Edwin Samuel Gaillard - 1878 - 604 pages
...theEoumanian amber does not differ from the Prussian. " MEMORY is a net ; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook ; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking." — Holmes. THE German name for assafcetida is devil's dirt. DR. PRIESTLY knew nothing of chemistry... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 640 pages
...it was when I made the Grand Tour, especially in Italy. Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. I can prove some facts about travelling by a story or two. There are certain principles to be assumed,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 436 pages
...it was when I made the Grand Tom; especially in Italy. Memory is a net ; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook ; but a dozen miles of water have run through it withoul sticking. I can prove some facts about travelling by a story or two. There are certain principles... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 350 pages
...it was when I made the Grand Tour, especially in Italy. Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook ; but a dozen miles of water have rim through it without sticking. I can prove some facts about travelling by a story or two. There are... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1883 - 234 pages
...very fugitive glimpse of his novel-writings. MEMORY. — " Memory is a net. One finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking." CONTROVERSY. — " Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way — and the fools know... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1884 - 204 pages
...fugitive glimpse of his novel-writings. MEMORY. — " Memory is a net. One finds it full of fish when h<; takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking." CONTROVERSY. — " Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way— and the fools know it."... | |
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Memory is a net ; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook ; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. 
