 | London Dialectical Society - 1871 - 440 σελίδες
...under my notice. But supposing the phenomena to be genuine — they do not interest me. If any body 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 to do. " And if... | |
 | London Dialectical Society - 1873 - 370 σελίδες
...under my notice. But supposing the phenomena to be genuine — they do not interest me. If any body 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 to do. " And if... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1874 - 86 σελίδες
...in a letter to the Committee of tho Dialectical Society. Ho says, "But supposing the phenomena to bo genuine — they do not interest me. If anybody would...faculty of listening to the chatter of old women and cu- • rates at tho nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better things to... | |
 | Charles Maurice Davies - 1875 - 428 σελίδες
...into for myself, was as gross an imposture as ever came under my notice. But supposing the phenomena to be genuine — they do not interest me. If anybody...listening to the chatter of old women and curates in the nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better things to do. " A.nd if... | |
 | Marie Sinclair Countess of Caithness - 1876 - 508 σελίδες
...Huxley says in a letter to the Dialectical Society : " But supposing the phenomena of Spiritualism to be genuine, they do not interest me. If anybody...decline the privilege having better things to do." If Professor Huxley could see, the vast importance of Spiritualism towards the elucidation of " those... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1885 - 342 σελίδες
...Appendix N. claims of " Spiritualism," in the following characteristic language — " If anybody could 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 to do." * In one... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1894 - 410 σελίδες
...once examined a case of ' spiritualism,' and detected an imposture. ' But, supposing the phenomena to be genuine, they do not interest me. If anybody...listening to the chatter of old women and curates in the nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better things to do.' Thus it... | |
 | Charles Maurice Davies - 1895 - 344 σελίδες
...into for myself was as gross an imposture as ever came under my notice. But supposing the phenomena to be genuine — they do not interest me. If anybody...listening to the chatter of old women and curates in the nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better things to do. " And if... | |
 | 1910 - 740 σελίδες
...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 to the chatter of old women and curates in the nearest provincial town, I should decline the privilege, having better things to do. And if... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 586 σελίδες
...into for mysejf, was as gross an imposture as ever came under my notice. But supposing the phenomena to be genuine — they do not interest me. If anybody...listening to the chatter of old women and curates in the nearest cathedral town, I should decline the privilege, having better things to do. And if the... | |
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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... 
