 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1855 - 348 pages
...should surprise you in the act. — BAXTER. 7. Truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress. Error is in its nature flippant and compendious ;"...perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion. — CURRAN. 8. Accuracy of perception, and truthfulness in all the details' of statement, should be... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 320 pages
...should surprise you in the act. — BAXTER. 7. Truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress. Error is in its nature flippant and compendious ;"...perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion. — CURKAN. 8. Accuracy of perception, and truthfulness in all the details of statement, should be... | |
 | Irina Ptakhova - Cyrillic alphabet in art - 1856 - 290 pages
...arrives at his conclusions, reminds us forcibly of the terse but true saying of the great Curran : that " Error is in its nature flippant and compendious;...perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion." No. II. THE RULE OF FAITH. The 14th Psalm.—The Alleged Corruption in the Authorized Version. IN order... | |
 | Charles Hastings Collette - 1856 - 514 pages
...^rtitles EXPOSING DR. MILNER'S FALLACIES AND FICTIONS. FART II. EDITED BT CHARLES HASTINGS COLLETTE. Error is in its nature flippant and compendious ;...perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion. — Cnrra/n. LONDON:PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM PENNY, 57, LINC.OLN'S-INN FIELDS; SOLD ALSO BY BOSWORTH &... | |
 | Medicine - 1856 - 824 pages
...suggested to my mind the words of Gurran, " Truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress. Error is, in its nature, flippant and compendious ; it hops with airy and fastidious levity over proofe and arguments, and perches upon assertion — which it calls conclusion." It is certainly very... | |
 | Irish orations (English) - 1857 - 564 pages
...profession, with very little information to those I address, or benefit to those on whose behalf J have the honour to be heard. I am aware, my lords,...perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion. Here the lord chancellor moved to have the chamber cleared; after some time the doors were opened.*... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 350 pages
...progress. Error is in its nature flippant and compendious ; EI it hops with airy and fastidjous lgxity over proofs and arguments, and perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion.— CDRRAN. 8. Accuracy of perception, and truthfulness in all the details' of statement, should be included... | |
 | William Henry Curran - 1858 - 694 pages
...them in the hackneyed style of a pleader, I should make a very idle display of profession, with verv little information to those I address, or benefit...perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion." Here Mr. Curran's triumph over his proud enemy was complete. The sarcastic felicity of this description... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 434 pages
...large auditory, consisting of co-ordinate members, of whom the far greater number is not versed in law. I am aware, my lords, that truth is to be sought only...fastidious levity over proofs and arguments, and perches on assertion which it calls conclusion.' Here the Chancellor interposed again by moving that the council-chamber... | |
 | John Spurgin - 1860 - 100 pages
...well as of the untutored of its interlopers. " Medical testimony," says that emerald orator, Curran, " is in its nature flippant and compendious; it hops...perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion." Had this orator and his witnesses known more about medicine, he would have perceived the defects in... | |
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I address, or benefit to those on whose behalf I have the honour to be heard. I am aware, my lords, that truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress; I know also that error is in its nature flippant and compendious ; it hops with airy and... 
