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| Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt - 1904 - 178 pages
...values, he often fails. Nevertheless, in the chemistry of nature, as in other spheres, it is true that The little more, and how much it is ! And the little less, and what worlds away ! In conclusion, let us remember that the function of concise and lucid prose is not... | |
| Mary Julia Lagen, Cally Thomas Ryland - 1904 - 274 pages
...desk is in touch. Not that I have the slightest desire to touch it. You know what Browning says: " The little more and how much it is, And the little less and what worlds away !" Do you see the application ? I'm sorry I could not have waited till afternoon to... | |
| Thomas Clifford Allbutt - English language - 1904 - 176 pages
...values, he often fails. Nevertheless, in the chemistry of nature, as in other spheres, it is true that The little more, and how much it is ! And the little less, and what worlds away ! In conclusion, let us remember that the function of concise and lucid prose is not... | |
| Robert Browning - 1905 - 488 pages
...sounds we heard, The lights and the shades made up a spell Till the trouble grew and stirred. 190 Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away! How a sound shall quicken content to bliss, Or a breath suspend the blood's best... | |
| Robert Browning - 1905 - 132 pages
...sounds we heard, The lights and the shades made up a spell Till the trouble grew and stirred. 190 Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away! How a sound shall quicken content to bliss, Or a breath suspend the blood's best... | |
| Adam Henry Wright - 1905 - 622 pages
...impotent past. It might well have been in Browning's mind when he wrote— Fio. 152.—LOHD LISTER. "Oh! the little more and how much it is ! And the little less and what worlds away !" 432 LISTERISM AND OBSTETRICS 433 Semmelweiss, Fordyce Barker, and Lister are three... | |
| Samuel Valentine Cole - History - 1905 - 144 pages
...theirs; they just fall short of the heroic, because they lacked the patience for one moment more. " Oh . the little more, and how much it is. And the little less, and what worlds away ! " Many a ship is wrecked on the rock that stands not far from the harbor; the name... | |
| William James - Conversion - 1905 - 636 pages
...interpreted in one way or another, be after all the truest of insights into the meaning of this life. " Oh, the little more, and how much it is ; and the little less, and what worlds away !" It may be that possibility and permission of this sort are all that the religious... | |
| 1917 - 714 pages
...the process by which the one seems to pass, almost at a touch, into the other. But it is a case of ' the little more and how much it is, and the little less and what worlds away'. To cross this ideal line means to reach the notion of objectivity and v CONTINUITY... | |
| 1904 - 126 pages
...Dalton's system and Avogadro's was no trifle to the chemists who felt most the influence of Dalton. " Oh, the little more and how much it is, And the little less, and what worlds away." When, about 1827, Dumas found himself constrained to regard the " atoms" of the... | |
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