 I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.  Macmillan's Magazine - Сторінка 411870Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1885 - 900 стор.
...some years since, yet perhaps many of us have at times felt with him : — " I protest," he said, " that if some great power would agree to make me always...sort of clock, and wound up every morning before I get oat of bed, I should instantly close with the offer." We might venture to suggest whether some... | |
 | 1871 - 780 стор.
...the Spectator when it was delivered, he expresses a wish that some great power would always make him think what is true and do what is right, on condition...a sort of clock, and wound up every morning before he got out of bed: he says, "I should instantly close with the offer." It is not a noble view of the... | |
 | Christian Evidence Society - 1871 - 552 стор.
...a mistake. * Professor Huxley considers that man is a bungle. At all events he would be glad to be "turned into a sort of clock, and wound up every morning before he got out of bed," on condition that he should always "think what is true, and do what is right."... | |
 | Gates, Hades, Witness for Christ - 1874 - 186 стор.
...tempting promise, "Ye shall be as gods"? One of your ardent class has recorded his feelings thus : " I protest that, if some great Power would agree to...me always think what is true, and do what is right, I should instantly close with the offer. The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right ;... | |
 | 1879 - 446 стор.
...would not be far from the mark when he says, "That man is a bungle," and that " he would be glad to be turned into a sort of clock, and wound up every morning before he got out of bed," on condition " that he should always think what is true, and do what is right;"... | |
 | Samuel Harris - 1883 - 598 стор.
...different system of thought. Prof. Huxley is another example of inconsistency on this subject. He says : " I protest that if some great power would agree to...what is true and do what is right, on condition of my being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning, I should instantly close with the... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1885 - 728 стор.
...some years since, yet perhaps many of us have at times felt with him : — " I protest," he said, " that if some great power would agree to make me always...sort of clock, and wound up every morning before I get out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer." We might venture to suggest whether some... | |
 | Charles Woodruff Shields - 1888 - 446 стор.
...consistently with his own scientific creed, he has protested that if some great Power would agree to make him always think what is true and do what is right, on...a sort of clock and wound up every morning before he got out of bed, he would instantly close with the offer. And John Stuart Mill may be said to have... | |
 | William Mackintire Salter - 1889 - 348 стор.
...effects, perhaps better. Indeed, Professor Huxley says that if some great Power would agree to make him always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of his allowing himself to be turned into a sort of clock, and wound up every morning before he got out... | |
 | Anthony Collins - 1890 - 84 стор.
...in judging • " I protest," siys Professor Huxley in his lecture on Descartes " that if some gre it Power would agree to make me always think what is...a sort of clock and wound up every morning before 1 got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. The only freedom I care about is the freedom... | |
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